“No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
As a continuation from the darkness of the eye, it is noted that the one with a spiritual eye, who serves God alone and always does what pleases Him, “He that sent me, is with me, and he hath not left me alone: for I do always the things that please him” (John 8:29), is undivided in their life’s direction: “Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only” (Deuteronomy 6:13). God loves you as if you were the only person in the world: “One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her” (Song 6:8), and with love invites you to look at Him in the same way: “The time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as if they used it not, for the fashion of this world passeth away” (1 Corinthians 7:29-31). While this sounds difficult, you are called to be a warrior for Love: “These are the names of the valiant men of David” (2 Kings 23:8); “Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war” (Psalm 143:1), to serve Love and Love alone, loving all in such a way that they may know God’s love: “But this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). O, how magnificent are the rewards of love for those that love! “Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth. And all these blessing shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts” (Deuteronomy 28:1-2). Here Jesus does not tell you that riches or the world are bad, for He made all and rejoices in His work: “For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made” (Wisdom 11:25), but rather asks what it is that you serve, where your heart rests: “My soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God” (Psalm 83:3). When you are the servant of the world, the flesh, or the devil, you serve a demanding and hard master: “There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough. Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: ‘It is enough’” (Proverbs 30:15-16), but when you serve Jesus, everything is welcomed with love, your every action towards Him is seen with tremendous love and gratitude: “And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke, and gave to his disciples for the set before them” (Mark 8:6). Though the Lord Jesus is your King and Master: “You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am” (John 13:13), how wonderful is service to one’s spouse! The most rigorous sacrifices are not accounted for, because they are done with extraordinary love: “So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love” (Genesis 29:20). How much more so, then, service to the soul’s sweet Spouse, Love Incarnate, He Whose Love is Perfect: “Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness” (Psalm 99:2). Turn your heart entirely to Jesus, love Him not a little but with a burning, fiery love: “He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings, shall also reap blessings” (2 Corinthians 9:6), and He will give you His own love to sustain you: “Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save” (Isaias 46:4). He is a loving and gentle King, that shares His throne and crown of love and glory with those who love Him, no matter how little and feeble their heart: “To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with me in my throne” (Apocalypse 3:21); “And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory” (2 Peter 5:4). Love Love, serve Love, and reap in the field of love, and you will feast on love for all your days.