The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light. But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in). Matthew 6:22-24.
We cannot serve God and money at the same time. This is the Truth, there is no getting around it, no matter how noble we claim that we are being, we cannot serve God and money at the same time.
For work in this world our Father has me own a car lot. Now whenever I begin to take a bunch of thought about it and begin to believe that I have to do things to make it successful, the business always suffers. It suffers because I am trying to serve the business. Most of the world would say that I am being prudent and responsible, but in reality I am serving an instrument of the world and that is not what causes us to be truly prosperous and blessed beyond expression. When I begin to take thought about the economy, gas prices, employment rates, inventory, or long range business goals the business sales drop right off. It is only when I am empowered by the Holy Spirit to actually stop taking thought about the lot and begin to take thought about serving others that it really prospers.
The Truth is that our Father has me where I am in business only to serve others. When I am taking thought for the Kingdom and taking no thought for the car business is when IJN Auto prospers greatly. As soon as I begin to think about what I need to do or what is happening with it, it tanks. The more I try to serve it, even though that seems like the right thing to do, it suffers.
It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues). 2 Corinthians 1:12
There is an awesome Truth when it comes to our physical life’s and it is that our Father never leaves us and He never forsakes us. Our Father is always influencing us and He is always strengthening us. Worldly, or fleshly wisdom, stinks. It is foolishness to our Father. So where ever He has us in this world, our Father will cause us to be successful in laying up eternal treasure as He uses us to serve others. Usually the way that He uses us makes no earthly sense either. So whether He has us in a job, in prison, in prosperity, in poverty, in sickness, or in health He will cause us to be eternally prosperous. So our peace is that it is actually God's responsibility to keep us from taking thought for the things of this world. When this Truth sets us free things get so much easier.
Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]— Jude 1:24
But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ’s victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere, 2 Corinthians 2:14
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