Two Master to Serve - Can it Be Done?

Gospel	Luke 16:9-15

Use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into the tents of eternity. The man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted in great; the man who is dishonest in little things will be dishonest in great. If then you cannot be trusted with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? And if you cannot be trusted with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own?

  ‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.’

  The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and laughed at him. He said to them, ‘You are the very ones who pass yourselves off as virtuous in people’s sight, but God knows your hearts. For what is thought highly of by men is loathsome in the sight of God.’

I normally do not make political comments on my blog, but today's Gospel reading and what is going on in our country seems to prove one of the points that Jesus is making here, namely, that we cannot serve two masters.  Thus enters our dearly beloved president, a man of genteel manners and obviously having the highest moral values as befitting a President of the United States of America. Early in his beneficent rule, he appointed a man to be attorney general of the United States.   When this appointee did the right thing and recused himself from a case in which he was a stakeholder, the Donald get mad at him and eventually fired him.  The president then put in the first man's place another who had spouted loud and long using words that indicated that he agreed with the president.  (This is something you have to do if you want to work for the Donald.)  Now, the new man finds himself in the same predicament that the previous AG was in.  But for him, there is no problem.  He says he can supervise the investigation where he is a stakeholder impartially.   We shall see.  

Now, political niceties aside, the first man is an example of a person torn between two poles.  He could not entertain the choice of giving the appearance of impropriety and so he did what was right while the second man chose the other path.  Neither one of them, as you can plainly see, were able to satisfy both masters and the former chose right and the latter chose to ignore what was right and to step into the muddy swamp of Trumpist Politics.     

We face the same choices every day of our lives.  If we were brought up well and if we want to do the right thing the path to take will be quite obvious.  We will love God and do what is right in God's eyes as He gives us light to see it.  I do not know what will happen in the political realm but I do know what will happen when we choose to follow the right master in life, we will be happy in life and attain heaven where we will be happy forever.  

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