Money or God
Status/ Popularity or God
Power or God
The flesh (addictions) or God
Ive never dreamed of super wealth but I do fear poverty. Money is important to me. I've never reached the stage where I could completely trust God , and let the money issues take care of themselves.
So I guess I am still serving two Masters.
I'm full of anxiety and dont trust God enough it seems.
I envy you people who only serve one master, all the time. The Lord, Jesus Christ.
I’m with you. Seemingly I am also serving two masters. To me it means double-minded, double-tongued...tossed about like a wave of the sea, driven and carried about by every wind of doctrine. Divided interest. But this world requires money to eat, have shelter, and without money you don’t have those things. Money used to be important to me. Then it wasn’t(because I didn’t have to worry about it). Now it is becoming important again seeing how much is needed or you don’t and can’t make it...not able to take care of yourself, instead having to always look toward someone with money to do it for you. Our daughters have had to start over so many times and I never fully understood their fears or concerns or the mountain they faced. To begin at not having furniture, utensils, lawnmower, ways to wash and dry clothes, food for the cabinets ...or how to have a roof over their head. Countless things it takes to survive and provide while looking at minimal pay to accomplish those things. So the need for money grows, yeah. Point is...you are not alone. I don’t understand. It seems impossible to not grow more and more in love with money which brings with it security. Without money, where is the security. How do you eat? How do you provide? How do you live?
I do think of Proverbs 30:8-9 (although at the moment it makes no sense) Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: [9] Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.