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 6.24
We live in an
unusual situation. We are citizens of the Kingdom of God while we live in a
world that is not really our home. We can get caught up in a battle of two
loyalties. It is easy to get trapped in following this world because it is
right there in front of us. The problem with God’s kingdom is that it is
invisible and we only can follow it by faith.
So there is the
danger that we try to balance two masters. We think we can serve God and serve
the world at the same time. We like to think that we can serve God while
playing games with the world.
It is however impossible to serve two masters properly. You are going to eventually serve one and ‘hate’ the other. One master must have our supreme loyalty. We can’t have the ‘best of both worlds.’ Elijah confronted the people of Israel when they were mixing their worship of Jehovah and their worship of Baal. ‘If Jehovah is God worship Him, if Baal is then worship him.’
Joshua challenged the nation with ‘choose today who you are going to serve.’ But for Joshua and his family it was ‘we will serve the Lord.’
It is however impossible to serve two masters properly. You are going to eventually serve one and ‘hate’ the other. One master must have our supreme loyalty. We can’t have the ‘best of both worlds.’ Elijah confronted the people of Israel when they were mixing their worship of Jehovah and their worship of Baal. ‘If Jehovah is God worship Him, if Baal is then worship him.’
Joshua challenged the nation with ‘choose today who you are going to serve.’ But for Joshua and his family it was ‘we will serve the Lord.’
We must face the same choice. Is our master the Lord or is it the world. We need to know
who our master is. We need to trust, follow, and obey our master and not be
distracted by the world.
Choose this day
who you will serve.
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