The Average Jane Journal #47 - Two Masters

I'm sure your church has been doing a series on the tough economic times, ours started one this past week. We had a great sermon, which has not left me yet. I was quite convicted by it.

Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

While the whole sermon convicted me, this verse has been with me the most. As some of you know I have always had a unhealthy relationship with money. But I have felt that I have gotten better through the years. And especially in the last two years or more, since I have turned more to my faith in God instead of money.

But I have to admit that I have felt there is an "in between" somewhere the two masters. My conviction comes from the realization that there is no "in between"-and that I'm still not where I should be in this area.

So what do you think? Are you comfortable in an "in between" seat (that isn't really there)? What do you have your faith in through the fear of these hard economic times? Is it a savings that makes you feel comfy? Is your faith in your retirement? Your job? We've seen enough to know that those things can be taken away at any moment. It's scary, I know.

Getting out of that "in between non existent" seat would mean that your faith is in God completely, even when all those things are taken away that you have faith in. (There is nothing wrong in having a savings or retirement, God wants us to be smart with our money, it's just where those things line up compared to God.)

Have you ever told God that He can have the things you hold onto? They are His anyway. I have done that a couple times when I felt myself getting too fearful over losing my home. I just didn't want my fears and worries to get in the way of my looking to God. I'm not saying it's wrong for me to want to keep my home, after all it was a blessing from God. But I don't want a hold onto it that is not Godly.

So I'm admitting that I am still sitting on a chair that doesn't exist, but God is showing me some things and I'm standing up, looking around for a "real" chair; one closer to Him.

Suggested reading - 1 Timothy 6