“No one can serve two masters,” Jesus says in Matthew 6:24. “You cannot serve God and money.”
It’s not a suggestion, it’s a simple truth. Try serving both, and your heart will split in two-love for one will always pull you away from the other.
When money takes the throne of your life, it doesn’t just stay in your wallet. It takes over your mind, your priorities, and your relationships, it whispers promises of security, comfort, and happiness, but leaves you constantly striving, endlessly anxious, never satisfied.
It convinces you to measure yourself by what you earn, own, or achieve. Your worth becomes tied to your net worth, your relationships begin to shift, subtly and dangerously, as people become opportunities or obstacles in your pursuit of more. Money doesn’t just demand your loyalty—it twists your identity.
And then… it leaves you empty. No matter how much you have, it’s never enough. You need more. The stock market plunges, a medical bill arrives, maybe you get what you wanted, but somehow, you still want more. The treasure you built your life around slips through your fingers like sand.
Myth buster alert: Jesus doesn’t condemn money. Money itself is not evil. It’s a tool, a resource, something that can bring tremendous good. It can lift the poor, provide for the vulnerable, and bring joy to the broken. In the hands of those who serve God, money becomes an instrument of blessing, but in the hands of those who serve it, money turns into a master, cruel and unrelenting.
Jesus offers a different way. He knows what your heart truly longs for and knows money absolutely can’t deliver it. He invites you to serve God instead—the only Master who gives rather than takes- the One who provides what you need, not through striving or scrambling, but through grace.
This isn’t theoretical. This is the God who fed a prophet with ravens, who rained manna in the wilderness, who declared that even the flowers of the field are clothed with splendour. He’s not standing there indifferent to your needs, He promises to meet them.
The irony is glaring. The more you serve money, the less you enjoy it. The more you serve God, the more money becomes something useful, not something ultimate. Something to share, not something to hoard.
If you won the lottery how long do you think the happiness honeymoon would last once the big house, new car and expensive holidays and jewellery have worn out? All the new friends would be gone with the house and the dreams.
There’s a freedom that comes when you let money take its proper place—a servant, not a god. When your heart is no longer enslaved to getting, keeping, and worrying, you’re finally free to live generously, joyfully, and lightly.
Jesus doesn’t just warn us about money’s dangers, He invites us to the riches money can never buy: peace, joy, contentment, the extravagant treasure of knowing and savouring Him. These are the riches that never run out, never lose their value, and never let you down.
Serve money, and it will break your heart. Serve God, and He will fill it.