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September 24
Thursday


CONTENTMENT

READ:
Matthew 6:24-34
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No one can serve
two masters.
__Matthew 6:24
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A gripping photograph of an old woman sitting in a pile of garbage made me ponder. She was smiling as she at a packet of food she had foraged from the garbage dump. It took so little for the woman to be satisfied.

There is much talk about a struggling economy and the cost of living going higher. And many are getting increasingly anxious about their livelihood. Is it possible to heed our Lord Jesus' teaching in Matthew 6:25, "Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on"?
Our Lord was not saying that we don't need to work, that we don't need to eat, or that we shouldn't bother about how we dress. He was warning against those things becoming so important that we become slaves of money instead of trusting Him. "No one can serve two masters," He said (v.24).

Seeking first "the kingdom of God and His righteousness" (v.33) is recognizing that no matter how much effort we expend to make a better life for ourselves and our families, ultimately it is the Lord who takes care of our needs. And since God is our heavenly Father, we will have enough.
__C. P Hia
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```````````````Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand,````````````
```````````````Never foe can follow, never traitor stand;````````````
```````````````Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,```````````
``````````Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there. __ Havergal``````
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Money serves us well if we receive it
as God's provision

**************Today's Bible Reading __ Matthew 6:24-34***********

24 No one can serve two
masters....You cannot
serve God and mammon.

25 Therefore I say to you,
do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or what
you will drink; nor about
your body, what you will
put on. Is not life more than
food and the body more than
clothing? 26 Look at the
birds of the air, for they
neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value
than they? 27 Which of you
by worrying can add one
cubit to his stature?

28 So why do you worry
about clothing? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they
grow; they neither toil nor
spin; 29 and yet I say to you
that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like
one of these. 30 Now if God
so clothes the grass of the
field, which today is, and
tomorrow is thrown into the
oven, will He not much
more clothe you, O you of
little faith? 31 Therefore do
not worry, saying, "What
shall we eat?" or "What
shall we drink? "or "What
shall we wear?" 32 For after
all these things the Gentiles
seek. For your heavenly
Father knows that you need
all these things. 33 But seek
first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and
all these things shall be
added to you. 34 Therefore
do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow
will worry about its own
things. Sufficient for the day
is its own trouble.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Mammon (v.24) is the Aramaic word translated as "wealth, riches,
money, or material possessions." Jesus spoke of it as a "master" (Matt.
16:24) that is in opposition to God and estranges people from God
(Luke 16:9,11,13). __SIM KAY TEE