Matthew 6: 24 (The God and Money Passage)

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“You cannot serve two masters”, the Lord said.  In this passage He spoke of the comparison between God and money.  But isn’t it true that it’s not money who sat and listened as He poured out this truth?  Wasn’t it people who had the ears to hear?

So the people, being the ones to whom He spoke were to consider their allegiance to God.  When you strive to have something of this world you are striving in the wrong direction.  That’s the point.  Money just happens to be the primary tool men use to grasp at what they want in this world.

We will become a slave to that which has mastered us.  Much like this pad lock bears the name of its maker.  How appropriate.  I could say that the point is, don’t be locked down by a desire for anything in this world.

Frankly, money is not the object of the passage.  God is the focus of Jesus’ words.  As it was with all His ministry, God the Father was the singular reason He appeared before us.  And God will be the focus of Jesus for eternity.  In that focus He was showing us to abandon all ties to this world and seek after His Father’s will.  If money is something the Father decides you need to have to accomplish His will, you will receive it.  But above all seek His will first!

By His Grace.

Understand What God’s Will is.

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The target of this blog is God the Father through the sacrifice of Jesus.   And often I will write things which bite at the pride of man.   I do not apologize for anything I’ve posted.  Yet it is important to note that I do not hate anyone. 

The Lord teaches His people to hate what is evil and to cling to whatever knowledge of His ways we can accumulate in our soul.  So if you are offended by what I write, what am I supposed to say?  The Lord is Righteous and Pure.  There is nothing on earth with which we can compare His completeness.  And anyone who speaks of the Lord with a focused eye to what is True is going to grate against the pride of man.

On the other hand, I too am a man.  And you can be sure that the turmoil between the pride of man and the Glory that is God resides in my heart too.  It is impossible for me to say I love the Lord in the same way He loves us.  But with all that I can muster I return to Him the measure of love He has been successful to teach me.

This brings me to the following scripture as an aid to explaining what has just been written:

“1Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. 3Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 5Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2)

May the Lord give eyes to see for all who desire His will.  Regardless where you find yourself today, the Lord can lead you into far more.  Only turn from the ways of the world and seek His ways.

By His grace.