Serve only one master

My Sunday Scritpure 2011.2.27


The Text: Matthew 6:24-34
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'No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.

'That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing!

Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are?

Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life?

And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin;

yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these.

Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith?

So do not worry; do not say, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?"

It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well.

So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

My Reading Notes:

Yes, this is the most important lesson in life. If any could explain it well, he will pass the examination of the kingdom of God.

This is the meaning of Oneness

If there is fire, there will not be wax.

If you are but a drop of wax, if you wanted to burn yourself, your wax will be gone.

Life is for burning, for using, not for keeping.

It is either this or that. Only one matters.

If you can enlighten yourself with this flame, you will be happy in the rest of your burning.

Somehow, you will ask: Should I give up my job? Should I give away all my money? Yes, you should. But to use all your money and your strength in a meaningful way. Use it as a life should use. Use it as a flame should use.

If you really understand that the meaning of oneness, you will not be stupid enough to throw away all your money, even to put that money into some stupid organisation is not wise. Effort should put into the most needed place. Feeding the poor is only secondary important. To teach them how to feed themselves are much much important.