Heart Dangers: How Love Becomes Desensitised

"And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

But he who endures to the end shall be saved." (Matthew 24:12-13)

Heart Warnings

Jesus warns of a subtle yet deadly cooling. Without realising, the temperature of unconditional love plummets!

The barriers are rising among us. Their position and the separation are visible and activated.

The rise of social, moral and spiritual chaos is connected to the tragic and dangerous loss of vibrant sacrificial love.

As lawlessness increases, agape love disintegrates too. Self-interest and self-preservation undermine trust and generosity. The divine commandment to love one another dissolves into suspicion, fear, and fractured community.

It is unravelling among us, and we are becoming desensitised and detached.

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Heart Re-Check

This is happening now - right before our eyes, right within our souls.

You may not have noticed, but the growing tension and aggravation undercurrents are quietly surging. There is increased intolerance and lower compassion levels. The irritation, the little critical comments, and judgements that have crept in are all signals that love's potency is dissolving.

When love calculates and measures, it is no longer love. It has drifted into obligation, exchange, and transactions for personal gain.

It doesn't happen suddenly - it's a slow, gradual degradation. Unconditional love

progressively becomes conditional. The indistinct shift remains undercover, eroding the heart's capacity to respond extravagantly until it counts the cost and records the debts with astounding accuracy and recall.

We are already counting the cost. The measuring stick has appeared, and we weigh up how much it takes, and how much will be left before we commit to love.

This isn't how love was designed, and our hearts are in danger of losing the image of Christ's imprint.

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Losing Identity

It may not have been a direct rejection, but the slip causes us to abandon and disregard heaven's kingdom ways.

Rejecting divine authority and sacrificial love that willingly lays down our lives for others signals the decline and disappearance of identity. We eventually forget who we are and how we were created to love.

This dangerous road leads to the eventual rejection of living and loving in alignment with the revealed truth of God.

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What is the Antidote?

Jesus warns us because we have to be vigilant - We have to recognise what is happening so we do not become cold, separated, and lost.

We are given the antidote: “but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved” (Matthew 24:13)

Love is meant to remain all the way to the end. Without it we cannot cross the finish line.

A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another as I have loved you, so that you also love one another.

By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

(John 13:34-35)

It is our covenant responsibility to be watchful and guard love. Be vigilant and honest about your heart. We must be accountable to one another to counteract the growing cold.

Endurance and perseverance in love are clear evidence of genuine faith.

"Hupomenó" is the word for endurance. It means to persevere and to remain steadfast

It has a powerful and poignant picture of staying under or remaining beneath the weight of something heavy. It requires strength and spiritual muscle. We could see the call to love and bear in trials as shared suffering, but I believe it is also a holy mantle and mandate. It marks us differently because it doesn't match a self-leadership narrative. This is why it says love is greater in its remaining (1 Corinthians 13:13)

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Where am I counted? - among the many or the few that persevere?

Are You a Part of the Many?

As I watch the headlines, the conflicts and tensions are increasing, and fear levels are rising, I keep praying for my heart to burn stronger.

I want to be one who loves and endures. I want to choose others, choose connection, choose discomfort, and choose overflow instead of restriction.

Are we already losing love?

This is my fear and my prayer. I want to be counted among those who cross the line, holding on to love. I don't want to become cold-hearted and lose what really counts when everything else is questioned and removed.

• Can I still love extravagantly?

• Can I still serve wholeheartedly?

• Can I still stay when everyone else leaves?

• Will my heart still burn in suffering?

• Am I still faithful when everything around me collapses?

• Is my heart ready to love without limits?

  
  

I pray for the strengthening, equipping, and empowering work of the Holy Spirit to increase and strengthen love within us and guard our hearts from losing fire.

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