Years ago someone wrote, ‘It’s you and me against the world’.  We can take this to heart when we read once again in the First Epistle of John, Chapter 2 verses 15-17 how God views the world and our place in it.

15) Have no love for the world, nor the things that the world affords.   If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love has no place in him,

16) for nothing that the world affords comes from the Father.   Carnal allurements, enticements for the eye, the life of empty show-all these are of the world.

17) And the world with its seductions is passing away but the man who does God’s will endures forever.