Serve the Right Master

If you're serving the right Master, you should be living a godly life with contentment and an abundance in Him. If you're not, then you're heading down a path with many traps of ruin and destruction and with a multitude of griefs.

August's Message, Day 13:

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:6-10 NIV

"Godliness with contentment is great gain," is precisely the point. Sometimes we need to be content with having everything we need, not necessarily everything we want. As Scripture also tells us, we cannot serve two masters. Either God is our pledged Master, or some other god is, which could be money, self, any addiction, fame, or anything having first priority in our lives. If God is not our Master, then we are slave to that which consumes our time and efforts, and consume us it does. Any god other than God, will cause us to "fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction," "with many griefs." It is best to serve the One Master and follow His path to success, prosperity, and the abundant life with His peace. Are you content? Are you serving the right Master?