Who’s your Master ?

Passage: Matthew 6:19-24

Before answering the question, something important to examine firstly is the heart. What is the condition of your heart ? This is important because in the passage that was just read we see in Matthew 6:21, in where our treasures, or importance is, is where our heart is. The three different conditions can be stated as: no heart, half hearted, and whole hearted. To explain this let us look at the first 3 kings of Israel and also Uzziah to better understand.

First condition: No heart (Saul).

Saul was someone who did not trust God

He lived for himself and his glory and whatever benefited him.. not good

Second condition: Solomon and Uzziah

Solomon-

He had a love of God but was heavily influenced by what was around him and the culture of other nations

Uzziah- He was made king at 16 and at first did everything in the eyes of the Lord and seeked the Lord. He was winning battles, got fame, riches, and when he was older and strong, he became proud. He went to the temple to burn incense and the priest there did not allow him because that was not his thing. He was mad that the 80 priest were there not allowing him to burn the incense and as he was going to burn the incense while being angry with the priest, leprosy broke out on his forehead, they took him out the temple and he himself rush out. (This can be read in 2 Chronicles 26)

The reason I bring up this story is because we can see more often than not people live this way. They are all for God, doing things His way, and once we are strong we began to rely on ourselves and we fall. Some leave the church for God others do not. What keeps us from following God is being proud, arrogant, and an ego. That can be all summed up to depending solely on yourself.

Third condition: Whole hearted (David)

A man who seeked the heart of God

A man with sin, not perfect, but always went back, seeking the Lord

In Hebrews 4:13 we can read that God knows and examines our hearts so a natural thing to ask is how does your heart look like? What is the reality of your right now?

Are you like David, not perfect, but seeking after God’s own heart or are you half heart, wanting to obey God but still in spiritual death and living for the flesh.

After looking at the heart, ask yourself, where is it? There are only two options when it comes to answering this question:

God

or Satan

Which Master do you serve?

A Master is anything that enslaves you or captivates your heart (Romans 6:16) and for some people that can alcohol, drugs, money, parties, approval of others (acceptance). The passage we read in the beginning Jesus states that we clearly can not serve two masters. He calls us out from obey all these others masters that Satan disguises himself in to serve the One True Master. When we serve another, like in this example money, we rob ourselves of what we are created to be, and we also rob God of the adoration that He ultimately deserves.

Jesus bought us with His blood to provide us a way from our old master which is sin.

We cannot serve two masters because the Lord our God is going one direction and Satan is going another. We must choose who we will bow down to. To follow Christ we must die to ourselves (Luke 9:23) and follow His teachings.

If we say, “Oh I can serve two different masters” you lie to yourself because than your loyalties are split and it will draw us away from Christ, He who came to die for all, who offers eternal life.

Becoming a follower and being called to be holy goes against our own flesh and sin nature. The only way to do it is with the help of the Holy Spirit, who is promised to us.

I leave with this question:

Who is your Master ?