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Trustworthy In Small Matters

Jesus said to his disciples: "I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.  The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. 

If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?  No servant can serve two masters.  He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

“Liar, liar, pants catch on fire.”  It’s a commonly used expression nowadays especially when referencing the promises of politicians – many of our “leaders” whose noses grow after every broken promise. The thirst for money prompts many elected officials – especially those seeking or wanting to retain office – to serve mammon, not the people and certainly not God.  Money can  enslave those officials to those to whom they are beholden – and controlled.

Accepting the littlest enticement from favor-seekers weakens will power and sows seeds of corruption.   Dishonest wealth is an outcome and can lead to hating the ones who reveal that dishonesty and untrustworthiness.  Devotion to scallywags, manipulators, and the wealthy who pimp us out to accomplish their agendas, not ones tailored to achieve the greater good (God), is to be avoided at all cost.

Now that the mid-term elections are over, we hope for elected officials to be trustworthy in small matters as well as great ones.

Deacon David Pierce

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