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• Today's "Moment with Mark" (70)

  30 January, 2013

  He taught them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer for all nations,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."   (Mark 11:15-17 NLT)

  The day Jesus went into the Temple and created mayhem among those who had turned the Temple from being a place of prayer into a place of profits (which wouldn't be so bad if it was spelt 'prophets') is a day etched into the minds of all those who witnessed the drama or have subsequently read about it.

  Yesterday we noted Jesus' reaction to the flagrant misuse and abuse of the Temple courts. We also noted that He had a lot to say about the issue of money and our attitude to it. However, it was what He said as recorded by Matthew that cuts to the chase.

  "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money".  (Matt 6:24 NLT)

  The implication in this statement sounds like this to me: "You can't serve two masters but you will serve one". We were designed for service. We were designed for worship.

  So, either what Jesus said was true (i.e. we can't serve two masters) or it was a lie designed to confuse our priorities. If we will not reject the lie and embrace the truth, the competition for our loyalty will be savage and fierce....and somewhere along the way it will involve money.  The love of it. The pursuit of it. The power of it.

  Joshua caught hold of this principle of not being able to serve two masters when he said the following:

  So honour the LORD and serve him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD. But if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD."  (Josh 24:14-15  NLT)

  Choose whom you will serve because you can't serve both but you will serve one.