Luke 16:13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Man only has two options for service. Man can choose to embark on a life long mission to serve himself, hopelessly laboring in an attempt to finish something that is not able to be finished, not ever. Or, he can serve God by laying down his life in exchange for the ever-ongoing revelation of what has been finished.
There is no mingling of the two for they are eternally separated from one another. The only blending for these two realities, these two worlds, these two men, is in the the vain and darkened understanding that is produced in the human heart. Allow the Lord to enlighten our hearts so that we may see the impossibility of living in or for two worlds; serving two masters. They are not separated by merely time or distance but rather the Cross of Christ and this division is finished and irreversible.
Consider a baby, new to the world, fussing over the lost “comforts” of the womb. Growing up is a process of seeing a finished work that forever disconnected two worlds. Two worlds were joined just for a few moments, but with the severing of the cord that connected them came an unchangeable and necessary division. Paul understood that this type of separation was not just required of God but actually was the pleasure of God. The proclamation of this finished work, in Christ, was pleasing to God (Gal 1:15). God is not doing anything different today. He still desires to reveal His Son in us.
Let us give the Lord liberty in our souls to free us from the bondage of self so that we may submit to His finished work and not just another one of our vain attempts to bring completion to ourselves. Christ alone is complete and He is offered to our hearts always.
