Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
The Morning Message yesterday caused quite a riff among many of you. Your responses ranged from complete agreement to unsubscribing to the mailing list. To be honest with you, this is exactly what I was expecting.
The truth is very hard to accept at times. It’s not easy to be 100% sold out to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God but this is what Jesus meant when He said, No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24)
What is mammon? The dictionary defines it as: wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion. In simple terms, mammon is anything of value that draws your worship, devotion, and faith away from God. It could be money, your career, real estate, investments, or any other tangible asset.
While we absolutely must have money to live and operate on a daily basis, we are not to worship our money or spend more time making money than we do building the Kingdom of God. All the way back in the Book of Genesis we read of God being our Provider. One of His many Names is Jehovah Jireh; The Lord will provide. (Genesis 22:14)
The Sermon on the Mount is said to be the Greatest Sermon ever preached. We find it in Matthew, Chapters 5-7. This Sermon is instructions on how to live your life Kingdom-minded. In the 6th Chapter, Jesus speaks directly to this subject. May I suggest you read the following Words of the Lord Jesus Christ and take them to heart. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:24-34)
Stop worrying. God will soon……….turn the tide
Kingdom-minded, Doreen
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