No One Can Serve Two Masters. Jesus wanted to set us free from mammon in our hearts. Mammon, in the context, seems to refer to care about material necessities. He is concerned, as he is always is, with the inner struggle we all experience between things and God. Quite often we speak of the "rat race". Rats may well enjoy (we have no means of knowing) the exercise wheels that adorn their cages. But to humans the wheel symbolizes the endless struggle of daily living with its depressing sense of never moving forward. It is difficult to avoid getting trapped in a rat race if one lives in the western world. We are gripped by the delusion that if we earn a little more money we will be set free. But the carrot of better and finer toys dangles perpetually before our noses, so that we spend more than we earn. To his horror a man discovers that he is making $50,000 annually but that the goal of freedom is still another $20,000 or $30,000 away. Like a mirage in the desert, it has receded as he advanced.
A man may earn $100,000 and feel the bitterness of slavery in his soul. You will say, "If I earned that much I wouldn't feel enslaved," and will then proceed to tell me how you would go about freeing up your time. But if you are not free now with the income you earn, you will be no more free with fifty times as much. Freedom is an inner contentment with what you have.It means to cover only heavenly treasure. Such an attitude frees you not only because you feel free psychologically, but because it frees your vision. It enables you to look at your life in a new way, so that you may discover, for instance, that you do not need to work the long hours you do but could spend more hours in direct involvement with the kingdom of God.=D
Sunday, August 21, 2011
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THE THREE BROOMSTICKS AT THE FRONT OF THE COTTAGE.
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