That, of course, is from the Sermon on the Mount which has been my morning study for sometime now...in fact, ever since I read that Mohandas Gandhi studied the Sermon daily for forty years. This is the non-Christian Gandhi who helped India to gain independence from the British Empire through nonviolence, through passive resistance.
The Sermon has been a positive in my consciousness for nearly fifty years, meaning, I've read it on occasion, and, whenever I found myself in dire straits, even tried to follow its instructions. I remember once back in the '80s literally going into my walk-in closet, tearfully kneeling amongst the bedroom slippers and dog's toys, and begging God To Do Something Already.
Go into your closet was as close as I could get to following the directions, but, on my honor, I believe that was satisfactory, even pleasing, to the God of my understanding.
Back to you cannot serve God and mammon: To me, mammon refers to fear. Fear itself boils down to a sense of separation from God. However, it is our daily self-centered fear that is the cross we bear for our ego...in particular fear of financial insecurity, fear of being wrong in plain sight, fear of being thought less-than, the whole raft of egoic fears, none more than fear of spiritual insecurity.
We cannot serve God and fear is my authority to go to God for God and that is all. We are told, taught, assured that what the Father has for us holds joy beyond imagining. The problem being, naturally, our reasoning mind. Face it, God's will is seldom, on first look, what we want; it is only in the living that we find it exactly what we need.
How else when He goes before us to make the crooked places straight?
Thank you.
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