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No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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The word ‘mammon’ from Hebrew and other ancient languages is often translated in other versions of the bible as wealth or money. And that really represents what people believe will bring security, peace, happiness and pretty much everything else the natural man desires. However, Jesus, and the entire Word of God, testify to the fact that only God can accomplish that—just as He has promised to do. It was David who said, ‘delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.’ {Ps.37:4} P.S.: When you delight yourself in the Lord, He will BE the desire of your heart!

The simple truth is that we must always remember to be on guard and not to forget that our lives do not consist in the abundance of our possessions. {Lk.12:15} Today’s verse should also drive home the fact that the riches of the world will not serve you, those who love those things will always wind up serving them!

Few people, if any, have ever had the wealth and riches that King Solomon so famously had. I purposely did not say, ‘he enjoyed’, because he did not. For the words of his own mouth testify to that! Consider that after reviewing the amazing extent of his accomplishments and possessions his summary was that he hated life and he hated all the fruit of his labor calling it all vanity, emptiness! And if anything, that is an understatement. {Ecc.2}

The apostle Paul also pretty well covered this topic as he wrote to his son in the faith Timothy warning him to be on guard against the love of money, the root of all sorts of evil, and to rather pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. {1Tim.6:9-11} We have something far better than a fat bank account, we have a rich Father who owns the cattle on a thousand hills. {Ps.50:10} As a matter of fact, He owns everything; For the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. {Ps.24:1} And how about outside of the earth? Well, the streets of New Jerusalem are paved in gold. {Rv.21:21}

True satisfaction will come when you can say as the apostle Paul did:

“I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. ” — “And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:12..19)

ALL I WANT IS YOU LORD