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26 March 2007
Praying, Giving and Receiving - a special series for Lent on Matthew's Gospel, written by Peter Graystone
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Long ago when a king converted to Christianity and ordered his knights to be baptised, many of them held their right arms out of the water. As they were immersed, every part of them was baptised except the hand in which they held their weapon. When the crisis came, they could kill without having to feel constrained by Christian morality.
I sometimes wonder whether it would have been easier if I had held my wallet out of the water on the day I was baptised. Then I could justify behaving from time to time as if all of me belongs to God ... except what belongs to me!
Father God, all I have is yours and by your grace you entrust me with its care. Help me keep nothing back from you, so that I may fully serve you as my Lord and master. Amen
Praying, Giving and Receiving - a special series for Lent on Matthew's Gospel, written by Peter Graystone
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Long ago when a king converted to Christianity and ordered his knights to be baptised, many of them held their right arms out of the water. As they were immersed, every part of them was baptised except the hand in which they held their weapon. When the crisis came, they could kill without having to feel constrained by Christian morality.
I sometimes wonder whether it would have been easier if I had held my wallet out of the water on the day I was baptised. Then I could justify behaving from time to time as if all of me belongs to God ... except what belongs to me!
Father God, all I have is yours and by your grace you entrust me with its care. Help me keep nothing back from you, so that I may fully serve you as my Lord and master. Amen
