Created for Love, Settling for Likes
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We are created to be loved, and to love others. But it’s easy to settle for likes. We feel a boost of ego when someone leaves a flattering comment or shares our post, and it’s satisfying … to a point. But deep inside we all want to be loved, not just liked.
Jeff brings up Scripture passages on what it means to be created for love and talks about the things that hold us back from pursuing authentic love.
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Snippet from the Show
“We are created for love, but we settle for likes because of fear, anger, hurt, woundedness, ego, inconvenience, love of money—all of these things can stop us.”
SHOWNOTES
John 15:13
“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
CCC 545
“Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: ‘I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.’ He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast ‘joy in heaven over one sinner who repents’. The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life ‘for the forgiveness of sins".
John 13:34
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
John 17:26
“I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
John 14:21
“He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her”
John 1:18
“No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.”
What stops the love of God?
Fear – fear of opening up your heart
Anger – unresolved conflict in our hearts
Hurt – go to confession and profess your desire to grow closer to God
Woundedness – wounds from our lives that stop us from receiving the love of God
Jealousy, Envy, and Inconvenience
Ego – believing that we can do it all on our own
Love of Money and Career - are our careers keeping us from loving those around us?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show, episode 124, |
| 0:04.4 | Created for Love, Settling for Like's. |
| 0:07.6 | Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:16.0 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. |
| 0:22.0 | It's the Jeff Kaven Show. |
| 0:26.0 | And welcome to the show and glad you're here with me this week as we're going to be talking |
| 0:31.0 | about something that is so central to our culture and that again |
| 0:35.4 | has to do with social media but particularly this whole issue of what we are going for, |
| 0:42.2 | what are people looking for in social media. |
| 0:45.0 | The measuring stick for much of social media |
| 0:50.0 | are little things called likes or hearts or you know kudos to you and and so it's |
| 0:57.0 | a way kind of of measuring whether you are connecting with people or people like you or they find you attractive or you're cool or or whatever. |
| 1:08.0 | But it's really interesting because the social media platforms themselves are starting to notice that this might be getting out of hand and might not be |
| 1:16.0 | accomplishing what they think people really want to experience on the web, which is a sharing of information |
| 1:22.4 | and ideas and community and and so forth not simply a barometer or a measuring stick as to whether you are popular. |
| 1:31.0 | So I've got a very interesting announcement from Instagram and Facebook that I'm going to be sharing with you in just a moment and it might surprise you. |
| 1:40.0 | It might surprise you what they are thinking of doing. |
| 1:43.0 | Got a lot of good email this week. |
| 1:45.0 | Appreciate that. |
| 1:46.0 | My email is The Jeff Kavin Show |
| 1:49.0 | at ascension press.com |
| 1:51.0 | and I always look forward to your comments your suggestions just |
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