Which God is Served

The photo was taken of a cityscape; it was taken from an office block window looking at a church. This church would have been, when it was built, the highest building in the city but now it was dwarfed by the other office buildings around it. It seemed small in insignificant. As I looked at the photo, it seems to capture the truth of some thoughts that I had been dealing with over the few days before.

As I read and hear stories about how our farmers, asylum seekers, refuges overseas and many young women in foreign countries and increasingly here at home I am left heart broken. There is no greater indicator that the leaders of our country and the world are serving the god of money and not the one true God.

Growing up, I heard stories of how people would starve themselves in order to provide sacrificial food to be place in front of the idols of their gods, such as budda, rather than using it to feed themselves and their hungry children. Such are the demands of false gods. They demand that you neglect yourself, your family, neighbours, the poor, the vulnerable, honesty and good moral codes to serve them.

In Matthew 6:19 we are warned: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;” Verse 24 tells us that “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mannon.”

When we serve the one true God we think about Jesus, Others and You in that order. Do you see very much of this in our world today? I don’t think so!