In “City of God,” Augustine writes about a rightly ordered love. He means that we have to get our love for things in the right order. We should love the things that are to be loved. We should not love the things that are not to be loved. John speaks more directly and clearly about what and who should be loved and not loved. It is an either/or love. You cannot love the world or anything in the world. It all passes away; if you love it, it will destroy you. We are called to love our Father in heaven who has loved us before the world began and has shown that love in the person of his Son, Jesus. (1 John 2:15-17)
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