Deuteronomy 11:16
Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
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As Moses met with the Lord God on the mountain to receive the commandments, the plan for a right and blessed relationship with Him, one of the first things he revealed was this: “For you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord (YHWH), whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” {Ex.34:14}

We cannot worship or serve another master! Jesus would reinforce that command as He was training His disciples in righteousness in that glorious Sermon on the Mount as He said: "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” {Mat.6:24} Mammon is the Aramaic word for wealth or for possessions—exactly what Satan, the god of this world wants us to place our trust in.

We had been trained in the world—by the world—that money will serve us and take care of us when in fact, as Jesus said, if we place our trust, our hope, in money or wealth we will wind up serving it. And it is a harsh taskmaster indeed! Money in whatever form it takes is very likely the most worshiped idol known to man. It is a very subtle master, much like the master it serves, always making promises it cannot keep.

In recent years around the world we have watched as economies and fortunes have risen and fallen like the tides of the seas. Yet all through those great changes the great truth still is that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and yes forever. {Heb.13:8} The apostle Paul is a great example of trusting in the Lord through thick and thin when he wrote that he had learned the secret of being content, being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. {Php.4:11-12} Remember too that he said that we should imitate him as he imitated Christ. {1Cor.11:1}

Our God, our Lord has promised to provide for every need we have {Php.4:19}, and He is faithful to watch over His word to perform it. {Jer.1:12} Look at the birds of the air or the lilies and the grass of the field if you need to check. {Mat.6:26-30} Jesus is the very font of joy that the world lacks!

Jesus praying to the Father said:

“for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; ... But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.” (John 17:8-9,13)
 
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