Do i Love This World Like God Loves me

Matt, one of my closest friends, made a statement the other day that initiated a train of thought for me that i'd like to share with you.  He said, "This world is designed to crush us [speaking of Christians]."  This of course was not anything i hadn't heard before and i'm sure you're very familiar with this truth as well.  Today, however, continued this vein of thought for me as our chapel speaker spoke about worldliness in the life of a believer (1Jn 2:15-17).
He made mention of the type of love that God has for each of us.  The type of love that is unconditional and everlasting no matter what.  That made me think of the passage that he dealt with in a completely different way: a perspective that i hadn't really considered before.
If you've been in church at all at some point in your life or watched the posters that fans have at televised football games, you're probably familiar with the verse John 3:16.  God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, the very best thing that He could offer.  He did this, not because He owed us something, but because of His unconditional, everlasting, no matter what kind of love.  The word used here for "love" (agape) is the same word used in 1John 2:15 for John's prohibition against loving the world.
The word for "world" is also the same in both verses, but the application is definitely different.  In John 3:16, John is talking about the inhabitants of the world.  God loved you and i and every other individual throughout the annals of time that He sent His Son to give His life for us.  However, in 1John 2:15 he is talking about the world system organized by Satan to draw us away from God.  This is the "world" that my friend Matt was talking about.  This system is designed by Satan to crush us as followers of Christ.
When the chapel speaker mentioned this passage it made me think, "How often do i love the world (the 1Jn. 2:15 world) like God loves us?"  How often do i sacrifice the very best i have for Satan's system?  How often do i give my unconditional, no matter what, no strings attached kind of love to a world that is designed to leave me empty, cost me everything, and ultimately destroy me?  No matter how often i suffer for my allegiance to this world, i'm willing to sacrifice my relationship with God in order to stay true to the world.  i know that in the end it will leave me wanting, yet i find myself always wanting more.  It seems at times that i'm hopelessly devoted to this world.  Identify?
One thing that i know and am confident of is that, though i may find myself loving this world far too often, God never stops loving me (Rom. 8:38-39).  His love bears all things, believes through all things, hopes in spite of all things, and endures through all things (1Cor. 13:7).  Though i may leave Him at home in order to pursue my illicit relationship with this world, He never leaves me.  i cannot let Him down, because i never was holding Him up to begin with (reference to "God's Chisel" by the Skit Guys).  i find that His love is slowly starting to consume me and i never want to go back again.  The world doesn't hold me anymore and it doesn't hold you if you are a follower of Christ.  Romans 6:7 tells us that those that are dead with Christ are freed from sin.
May God's love for us keep us from loving the world.  May we like Helen Lemmel find ourselves turning our eyes upon Jesus, looking full at His wonderful face, that the things of earth might grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.  Thanks for reading.