Serve Only One Master

The Beloved Master showed us by example that we can serve only one master. When tempted forty days in the desert, he was offered all the kingdoms of the world if he would but bow down and worship that great deceiver. To this the Master replied that you shall worship the Lord God and serve Him only. This is the example we should follow.

Everyone needs money to pay for his daily bread. But it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. The love of money destroys our relationship with God and with each other. We do what the heart desires. If our heart desires money then the need for wealth and power consumes us and we have no time to seek the presence of Divine Love. A heart that focuses on wealth cannot love God. In fact money becomes our god and when we worship wealth, there is no place in the heart for the Eternal King. Kindness and love towards others is crowed out. Oppression, hatred, greed, envy, strife overpower love for others.

Take a look around you. What do you see? A man goes to a place of worship and prays to receive the praise of men’s eyes. Yet in his business, his scales are dishonest. He cheats his customers to earn a few extra coins. Doesn’t this happen all around? Has not this very thing happened to you? Who or what is his true love? God or wealth?

Our Beloved Master asks us not to store up for ourselves the treasures of earth, where moth and rust can destroy and thieves can break in and steal. Rather we are to store up for ourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves cannot enter.

If we are true seekers of the presence of the Almighty, then we need to make a choice; for where our treasure is, that is where our heart will be. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other. Said differently, he will be devoted to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth. There can be only one Master.