Friday March 07th, 2025
« For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome »
NKJV “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Amplified No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand devotedly by the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon [that is, your earthly possessions or anything else you trust in and rely on instead of God].”
NLT“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.”
EasyEnglish A slave cannot work for two masters at the same time. Maybe he will hate one of the masters, but he will love the other one. Or he will work well for one master, but he will think bad things about the other one. God and money are like different masters. You cannot work for both of them.’
In our Bible reading for today, Jesus Christ made it clear that you either love God or mammon; It is not possible to love the two at the same time.
Loving God one hundred percent takes care of the second commandment which says, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ because in 1 John 4:20NASB, the Bible says,
« If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen »
If you love Jesus, God will love you specially in return and He will dwell with you (John 14:23).
Romans 8:28KJV says,
« All things work together for good to them that love God. »
Irrespective of whatever may be happening; it will end up for your good, because according to Romans 8:37, you will be more than a conqueror.
If you fight without God, you are bound to lose.
If you fight and ask for God’s support, you’ll win but may have some battle scars.
If God does the fighting for you, He will win on your behalf and hand over the victory to you.
That is what makes you more than a conqueror. John 15:14NKJV says,
« You are My friends if you do whatever I command you »
Obey God’s commandments if you truly love Him.
You can also show that you love Him by giving.
In 1 Kings 3:3-4, the Bible says that Solomon loved the Lord and thus sacrificed unto Him.
An evangelist went to Ghana when it was still called the Gold Coast. He met a woman who was so poor that she had only one dress that she wore every day. She gave her life to Christ and one day, she dropped a gold coin into the offering basket. The evangelist asked, “Looking at you, I’m suspecting you stole this gold coin from your master”. The woman said “No, I didn’t steal; I sold myself as a slave and this is the payment made to me”.
That indeed is a great demonstration of truly loving God.
Do you truly love God ?
Application – The proof of your love for God lies in your obedience to His word and commitment to Kingdom projects.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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