“YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY!”

 Matthew 6:19-24                    (ESV)

“[24] “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”.”

Being tasked with describing WEALTHY can be a grossly misguided and misunderstood endeavor???  JESUS (GOD IN HUMAM FORM-INCARNATE) is recorded in the Scripture above stating that “YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY”!!!  Surely anyone who saw JESUS IN HUMAN FORM would be DRAWN to WHATEVER was required to be one of HIS??? SURELY???

Sadly, most of humanity doesn’t have the ability to separate themselves from living IN the world without being conformed (to behave according to society) to the norms OF “this world”!!  These standards are VERY TEMPTING to be drawn into, but GOD has a way of orchestrating the lives of HIS CHOSEN to avoid succumbing to the influences of “the enemy”!  HE LOVES us too much to permit “contamination” to infiltrate our lives and cause us harm and destroy our lives!

The King James Version of the BIBLE uses the word “mammon” in place of “money”.  The word “mammon” is defined as “the FORCE that MAKES PEOPLE makes people try to become as rich as possible and the belief that this is the most important thing in life”!  The “FORCE” that supposedly MAKES PEOPLE do things “the enemy” himself.  He has the ability to dress up with SPLENDOR, but his rewards are CATASTROPHIC AND ETERNAL!!!

Hearing JESUS say “YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY” makes a lot more sense when you are able to SEE TRUTH instead of the lies of “the enemy”.  Have your EYES been OPENED to SEE that “YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY”???