A love for the better things of the kingdom of God progressively replaces the love we have for the world when we become followers of Jesus. This doesn’t mean we don’t love the people of the world, but rather we don’t love the philosophies and principles and pleasures of the world which are opposed to God. We are to live in the world as lights for Jesus without living like the world with its sinful values, desires and ways. God radically enables this in us by His grace. As the otherworldly love of the Father captures our hearts, we look more and more to scripture, not culture, for what we are to love and how we are to live.
