This is only one of the places where conflict between God's will and our will is perfectly clear. No two masters. Which master do you love? You can only serve one remember. Money for me is just a symbol of the many masters which can take us from being servants of the one true master. St. Paul teach us that we have all been slaves to sin. We have chosen to serve a mater other than Jesus. Maybe it is fame or recognition we serve. On the other hand it might be health beauty and/or fitness that we serve. These and more are masters that can claim us as slaves.
It is not that money is evil in and of itself, or security or health. It is that they are meant to fill a lesser priority in our lives. The reading continues: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life,what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body,what you shall 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 one cubit 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 tellyou, 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 men 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 all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these thingsshall be yours as well.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day." The problem is we don't trust God. We fill ourselves with anxieties of one kind or another and try to be our own master. We find in time that we have been deceived and we have been serving the wrong master. Scripture says that we have not been set free in order to become slaves to sin again. If Christ has set us free we are free indeed. Jesus is the only master that will never take away the unbreakable gift of free choice. So serve God, be free.
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