“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? “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.” ~Luke 16
I know this passage is about being trustworthy with a few things but for today's blog I want to take the last part of this verse....
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.”
The issue becomes when we trust in money, fame, fortune OVER God. They become our idol, our addiction. When money, fame, fortune don't make us happy anymore we then add more medication to include drugs, alcohol, sex, a wild lifestyle etc. By this time satan has his claws so deep that you don't feel you could ever be worthy of Gods love that you continue down the slippery slope of destruction til death seems to be the logical solution~ death is NOT the answer. Relationships with the RIGHT people that will walk with you as they bring you closer to a right relationship with God. But remember they are NOT God, and they can't bring you up out of the pit you are in ONLY God can.
Psalms 40 talks about God bringing us up out of a pit; but what I want you to see is who called to who?
I waited patiently for the Lord;he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him.
