| RESPONSE TO "DILEMMA" BY www.xanga.com/zenichka
Alright..... Here's my issue:
Luke 16:13
"No servant 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 mammon."
Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, "Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."
Basically, either a person is of God, or with the world, and you cannot choose both.....
Look around, look around, look around..... No one cares about God anymore..... All they care about is money, fashion, popular culture, entertainment..... They do not care about being righteous..... Only that they become rich and comfortable.....
But what then? Do I need to withdraw from society and become a hermit in order to be righteous?.....
I know what men (i.e. society) expects and demands of me: A solid education, an excellent career, a healthy social life..... A well rounded person or whatever crap a social worker would tell you.
But what is any of that worth in the Kingdom of Heaven? You've got a nice house, a car, an office at the top floor where you work and you've just been promoted to senior director, or whatever ranks those corporate bastards have..... Your old school teachers would be proud of you, knowing you have achieved so much and that you've got a bright career ahead of you.
And then when you are brought before the judgement, He shall ask you what worth all of that was.....
And then what?
So, instead of that, you try to live the life that God would want you to lead..... Living as one of the poor..... one of the weak..... one of the humble..... Healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked.....
And you are mocked and reviled among men for it, because they think you are unimportant..... A "little people" who should not meddle in the affairs of men.....
Am I to be shamed and suffer before men? To be hated and mocked for rejecting greatness for the rest of my life until I die?
You, who study business/marketing/finance/whatever. How shall you study well without becoming a servant of riches? Can you be a succesful businessperson and still be loyal to God's word? Or will the camel pass through the eye of a needle first?
MUST I SACRIFICE EVERYTHING I HAVE AND BE KILLED BEFORE I AM ASSURED OF SALVATION? |
