-- the nations seek after things of the world, and God knows what things you need --- Luke 12:30
-- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world --- 1 John 2:15
-- if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him --- 1 John 2:15
-- all that is in the world, lust and pride, is not of the Father, but is of the world --- 1 John 2:16
-- the world passes away, but he that does the will of God abides for ever --- 1 John 2:17

Luke 12:30 KJV
[30] For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

1 John 2:15-17 KJV
[15] Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, (Then) the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [17] And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1 John 3:1 KJV
[1] Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

To show God that you do not love the things of the world, show God that you love him by keeping his commandments.

Exodus 20:6 KJV
[6] And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:10 KJV
[10] And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:9 KJV
[9] Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Deuteronomy 11:1 KJV
[1] Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

Deuteronomy 11:22 KJV
[22] For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Deuteronomy 30:16 KJV
[16] In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Joshua 22:5 KJV
[5] But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Nehemiah 1:5 KJV
[5] And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

Daniel 9:4 KJV
[4] And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

John 14:15 KJV
[15] If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21 KJV
[21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:10 KJV
[10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

1 John 5:1-3 KJV
[1] Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. [2] By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. [3] For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.