“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” – Mathew 6:24
Jesus makes it clear, in this verse, that we can make money our master. Instead of serving God, we can (and do) serve other things, and those things become our master. But, you can’t serve God and that other thing. This is not a rule/commandment from Jesus, He’s telling us that this is our nature. We literally can’t serve two masters, it’s not in us to do that. We can’t truly say yes to serving God, while truly saying yes to serving money (or whatever it may be).
To the “paper chaser”, you can’t serve God and money. To the “player”, the “ladies man”, the typical guy, you can’t serve God and sex. To the typical female, you can’t serve God and your boyfriend. To the people who say, “I do what I want to do”, you can’t serve God and yourself. You “will be devoted to the one and despise the other”.
For example:
Which do you choose?
Want a job that pays $30 an hour or do you want to study the bible?
Want that thick girl you saw last night or do you want to worship God?
Want to spend time with your boyfriend/girlfriend or would you rather hear The Word at church?
Want to sleep in on your day off or do you want to wake up early to pray to the Father?
You will love one and hate the other, be devoted to one and despise the other. NO-ONE can serve two masters.
Let me put it in other words. What do you spend most of your time pursuing? What takes up most of your time, thoughts, attention (even money)? Whatever it is, thats your god. If all you think about is when the next time your going to have sex, you spend time trying to “get girls” (or guys), spend money on clothes to look more appealing to girls/guys so it can lead to the bedroom, your attention goes to porn and girls/guys… You’ve made sex your god. You’ve made your life more about sex than it is about God. You worship it. You can’t serve God and sex. You can’t worship God and sex. Everyday you will be choosing sex over God.
“You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God…” – Exodus 20:5. We bow down to these things in our hearts. We compromise Gods laws for these things, we compromise our relationship with God for it, we want it more than we want God, we pursue it more than we pursue God, we care about it more than we care about God. We put these things before God, as a result, we make these things our gods, our masters, and dedicate our lives to those things, instead of God.
You can’t serve/worship God and something else. We all have done it or are still doing it. If God (and the things of God) doesn’t take up your time, attention, and thoughts, then something/someone else does. If you’re not pursuing God, you’re pursuing something or someone else. To some, it may seem like you’re pursuing both but ,truly, your devoted to one and despise the other.
You can’t have two masters. Only one god can be your true master. So what’s it going to be? God or money? God or sex? God or your boyfriend? God or power/status? God or pleasure? God or entertainment? God or porn? God or weed? God or your will?
What god is your master, which one is seated on the throne of your heart? If its not the God of the Universe, then He needs His seat back, for your sake.
R3VOLT 