“No one can serve two masters. Either
you will hate the one and love the other, or you
will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and money."
+ Matthew 6:24
A little girl was getting ready to go to Sunday
School one day and her mother gave her 2 quarters.
“Now here are 2 quarters”, she said, “One is for God
to give in the offering basket, and the other is for
you.”
As she went off skipping to Church,
both quarters eventually flew out of the pocket of
her dress! As she scampered after them and one
quarter she was able to save. The other, however,
kept rolling until it went right through the
drainage grating on a curb and down into the sewer.
The girl started screaming at the top of her voice,
“Someone call 911! This is just awful! I dropped
both my quarters and God’s quarter just went down
into the sewer!
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”We laugh at this and it is indeed a
cute story, but it is funny because it discloses
truth about our heart. We love God and believe that
God is and should be first in our life, but we so
often put ourself and our own desires above Him,
don’t we?
Everything is God’s. But if we hold
on too tightly onto temporary things, we lose our
grip on God. God gives us things not so we love the
things but that we love and thank the Giver. Look at
God’s hands.
They are open to receive us and
bear the scars showing the price of His loving
redemption. May we most tightly cling to Him and to
the cross.
Grace Lutheran Church, 201 S. College St., Lincoln,
IL
10:30am Sunday Worship; 9:00am Bible Study
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