God and mammon

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” - Matthew 6v24

Most of us like to have it both ways. We really seem that we want to do right and serve God, but at the same time we can’t quite let go of the world. If we are not careful we can spend our whole lives in a delicate balancing act trying to figure out how we can do both.

Jesus makes it clear – you can’t have it both ways. Those who try to do it are like the Laodicean believers who were lukewarm in their faith. The truth is that we can’t do both right. As Jesus puts it we are either going to hate God and live the world, or love God and hate the world.

We all know what the right thing to do is. The question is which of us are willing to totally forsake the priorities of the world and instead FULLY commit ourselves to loving and serving Him?