I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this saying from Jesus:
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” (Matthew 6:24)
As Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody. It’s going to be one or the other, but not both. If your prime motivation is money, you aren’t and cannot be serving God. As another well-known Bible passage puts it,
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. (1 Timothy 6:10)
This is often misquoted as “money is the root of all evil”, but it’s more subtle than that. We all need money to function in this world. Money isn’t evil. It’s when it becomes disordered in our priorities, such that we love it rather than God and serve it as our master rather than God, that it becomes the cause of evil.
Note: all kinds of evil, not all evil. There are many evils not motivated by money, but it sure acts as the lubricant for an awful lot of them.
I’ve been thinking about that in the context of the Great Covid Delusion which has taken over our world. I’ve really wrestled with the “whys” of it since I started to become convinced there was something sinister behind. There are many theories, and I don’t find all believable, but one thing I know is that you don’t need any fancy conspiracy theories to trace the money trail and form some conclusions.
The pharmaceutical companies behind the vaccines have made tens of billions of dollars. Perverse financial incentives in the US reward hospitals for each patient diagnosed with COVID, put on a ventilator, prescribed Remdesivir, listed as a COVID death. It’s rumoured that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who has engaged in hate speech against the unvaccinated and imposed some of the harshest and most totalitarian COVID policies, has shares in the BC company which makes the lipid nanoparticles for the vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies and governments sponsor corporate media, who become unquestioning shills, promoting propaganda and outright lies. Who knows what kind of money is running behind the scenes, fattening the wallets of FDA and CDC officials, public health officials, politicians, and so on?
People don’t even have to be bribed or directly benefit financially to cause money to be the defining factor in their decision-making: the threat of losing their jobs is enough to make even most of those aware there’s a problem to remain silent.
But what is the price of their silence? People are losing their jobs, suffering vaccine injuries, losing their rights and freedoms, children are being deprived of their education and crucial developmental experiences, and on and on the toll of suffering goes. Totalitarianism is being implemented worldwide under the guise of “protecting” the population from a not-very-dangerous virus.
I personally have decided that the stakes are too high for me to remain silent. I am an insignificant person with very little influence. I am not a doctor, nurse, virologist, or epidemiologist. I am a very ordinary person with a very small, almost non-existent, sphere of impact. There is so little I can do. But what I can, I am determined to do. I have decided I won’t let fear of social shunning, recrimination, reprisal, loss of income, or anything else stop me from doing my little part to push back against this darkness.
That decision came home a bit today. I’ve written previously about my decision to reject a couple of contract jobs for clients which engage in vaccine discrimination. Today I got an email from the company I contract for saying they’d probably found someone to do one of those jobs.
This means I directly lose quite a bit of money from the many hours that job would have taken. It may mean I lose more money in the future from this person doing work I otherwise would have done, or very likely, taking over my job altogether. The company has been tolerant with me but I suspect it may be the difficulty they’ve had finding anyone else with my particular skills. But if and when they do, I will not be at all surprised if I’m shown the door.
And that’s really perfectly reasonable. You can’t expect to keep working for someone if you’re refusing to do part of the job. The fact that they didn’t immediately stop my contract is the surprising part.
And yet I’m not willing to sell out my principles or what I believe to be right. Discrimination, segregation, medical apartheid, forcing people to take medical treatment or lose their jobs and be shut out of society, all the horrors that are going on - all of this is 100% against the God that I serve. It’s demonic. So I can’t cooperate with it in any way, even if that means I sacrifice my income.
I don’t say this to toot my own horn, just as one very humble personal example. There are many, many heroes with much greater influence who have lost so much more to speak the truth in the face of the covid narrative, to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude.
But do you see it? The only way I or anyone else can do that is if we believe in something higher, some principle that means more than the almighty dollar. For most people, sadly, that’s not the case. Promise them millions and they’ll do almost anything. Threaten them with loss of income and they’ll jump as high as they’re told. They serve the master of money, not the Master God.
The reason those who serve the Master God can live in obedience to his principles even when it means the loss of money, is that he promises to take care of our needs.
Directly after Jesus’ declaration that you can’t serve both God and money, he says this. It’s a long quote but worth reading in full:
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Matthew 6:25-33)
The reason we can be free to serve God and not money is that he promises that when we do, he’ll take care of us. He will meet our basic needs. No, we may not end up as rich as those who deaden their consciences to run after the god of money. But we’ll have the true reward: treasure in heaven, a clear conscience, God’s smile of “Well done”.
I know which I’d rather have. After all, eternity is forever, and if you pick the god of money, none of it is going to go with you when you die.
I keep thinking you and I are on similar journey, even stepping on some of the same stones on the footpath.
My brother called, said the info I sent him kept his kid from vax.
God did that but He used me. You and I can save one being His hands, His feet, His heart to pray.
Jericho. Remember Jericho. The walls fell. Why? They worshipped God.
Jordan. Walk into the Jordan. The river didn’t part until the Israelites STEPPED IN.
Pray for me again please though. I can talk a good talk but feel I am not making His name great through prayer and speaking His name in the on line communities. I want to, sincerely do.
I think evil is about to hide again, hide, retreat but only a feigned one. While I think I’d like to help pursue it like a rat terrier going into the rat hole, I want God to fill me with His purpose. Some of that I think is to learn even more about all this and be a witness to the godless scientists that have helped create this problem.
But I can only do that well by choosing my master each day “take up your cross and follow me”