Luke
16:9-15
Jesus
said to his disciples: “I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest
wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. The
person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great
ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest
in great ones. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who
will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs
to another, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters. He
will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
The
Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him. And he
said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows
your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of
God.”
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Reflection:
Do you
allow yourself to be influenced by the love of material things?
Advertisers
continuously bombard us with ads that entice us to love material things? So
what we do is we buy simply because we allow ourselves to be captured by the
very enticing advertising even if there’s actually no need for it.
This is
what we must watch out for because if we are not careful there’s that tendency
to serve the God of this world which is mammon or money. Who is behind this advertisers that induces us
to mindlessly spend so that we are always busy to earn more money until we
eventually shun God in our lives?
The one
behind is the Devil it deludes us to believe that mammon or materialism is the
be all and end all of life. And if we are not careful we may believe it thus we
may favor mammon over God. But we all
know that mammon is an instrument of the devil to take us away from God.
You
therefore have to choose God over the God of this world which is materialism. If
you choose God you will have a peaceful life. You may not be able to ward off
every problems that may come your way. But you will be able to handle it no
matter how difficult it may be.
Why? Because you’ve chosen to side with God. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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