MATTHEW 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”James 1:8 “Such a person is double – minded and unstable in all they do.”
Back when there were still circuses, there was a bareback act that was thrilling and frightening at the same time. A lovely young lady in a ballerina costume would come out standing up on one horse. Soon a second horse would gallop into the ring and the young lady would rush around the ring at top speed with one foot on the back of each of the two horses. Of course, the horses had to stay as close together at possible while also galloping rapidly. And sometimes the young lady would even do acrobatics, landing squarely with one foot on each horse’s back.
While this kind of balancing act might thrill a circus crowd, it’s daunting to do it in real life….and yet, many of us are attempting something far more frightening! We are trying to serve both God and money at the same time, and there’s NO WAY we can do so! Jesus already told his followers in Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Jesus made it clear: there’s no room for compromise! You can only be devoted to one master. You must make a choice. And in the song by Bizzle, it’s clear that you can’t eat money. It is a spiritual law that you come to resemble what you worship. If you worship the one true living God in all His majesty and splendor, and purity and authority and love, you will come to resemble Him. If you worship money and the things money can buy, your soul will continue to shrink and shrink until there will be practically nothing left.
Money is a tool, an means to an end. But if we are truly worshiping God, everything we have must come under His authority, including our money…especially and particularly our money! In Joshua 24:15 Joshua confronted the Children of Israel and asked them point – blank whom they planned to serve. And then Joshua boldly and firmly stated, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Each of us has a choice to make each moment. Whom are you going to serve?
PRAYER: Father God, forgive us! So many times we say we are serving you, but we don’t really mean it. Help us to truly serve you and to follow hard after you all the days of our lives. In the mighty Name of Jesus. Amen.
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