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. Luke 16:13
At the conference last week in Spain, Peter Briscoe of the Netherlands share these three points for overcoming mammon and the stronghold it can have in your life.
“Dethrone it! Desacralize it! Depart from it!
(1) Dethrone it! How? Recognize God’s victory and provision in your life. Money may not be a goal itself.
(2) Desacralize it! How? By giving and by bringing grace into the world. Choose relationships over money. Money may not be a priority.
(3) Depart from it! How? Avoid debt and learn contentment through thankfulness. Money may not make you it’s servant.”
Peter J. Briscoe in “The Challenge of Stewardship” presentation at the Compass Europartners Conference on 21 January 2016 in Malaga, Spain.
What I appreciated most about this counsel was the practical nature of it. Don’t make money a goal or priority or you will become enslaved. Same thing with debt. It’s another trap for making you a servant of money. At this point, let me speak frankly.
Most people, Christ followers or not, don’t overtly choose to serve mammon. It happens through a series of small decisions. So how do we get out? Change directions and make many small decisions rooted in biblical truth. Say yes over and over to God’s design for you.