New Testament 225

New Testament 225 August 3, 2015

 

Cover of Lewis's novel, first edition
It’s usually neither this obvious nor this shameless and deliberate, which is what makes it so difficult.

 

Luke 16:14-15

 

To the extent that we serve God in order to gain earthly rewards — e.g., money, public esteem, the approval of members of the opposite sex, glory, or whatever — we’re not really serving God at all.

 

I suspect that everybody has this problem, at least to some extent, at least at some times.  (We all want to be well thought of.  Most of us would like to have a bit of money, or security.  And so forth.  Such desires aren’t necessarily bad in themselves.)  The task is to reduce that extent and those times as much as we can.  It’s a very difficult undertaking.

 

“Priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion. . . .  But the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money they shall perish” (2 Nephi 26:29, 31). 

 

Posted from Victoria, British Columbia

 

 


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