We’re a society of choices.
The grocery store is an excellent case in point. Choose an aisle, any aisle, and to find just one variety of an item for sale is nearly impossible. Even cereal. There are multiple varieties and flavors of Cheerios, a staple that’s been around for decades.
Milk? Low-fat, non-fat, two-percent and whole. Eggs? How can there be more than one choice there? Chickens make them, not us. Read the packages. Four, twelve, or eighteen in a pack? We can also get organic, omega-3, brown, or free-range.
Cars? Fully customizable, from the quality of paint we want on the outside to the surfaces we sit on inside.
There’s no end to the choices we get, and the thing is, we want even more. We also like the idea of returning what we’ve chosen if we find it’s not exactly to our liking. That red pair of shoes with the rhinestones in the strap? Yellow would have been a better choice, so we box them up and head back to the store.
Can we do that with our Christianity?
Matthew 6:24 tells us we have two choices.
Two? Only two? How drab! How boring! We might as well live in post-war England. Just after WWII, the shop shelves were as barren as the Great Basin Desert in North America. How much fun was that?
The reality is that too much choice brings about indecision. Go shop for cell phones, really shop. Sometimes we have to choose by brand recognition alone, because there are too many with excellent options, and all will do the job credibly. We become flummoxed with indecision.
We can’t afford indecision with Christ.
Let’s get back to Matthew 6:24.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Eenie, meenie, miney, mo. Make a choice, and there we go. Do we chase after God, or is our choice the almighty dollar?
This is not an exclusive decision. Choosing God doesn’t mean we must live in poverty, and having money doesn’t mean we’ve abandoned God. We don’t live in the desert. It’s not post-war England. Rather, when we walk out the door of the Pic-and-Carry, and we only have one item in our hand, what have we chosen to leave behind, God or money?
Any aisle. Choose any aisle. The decision is ours.
Choosing Jesus means we put him at the top of our to-do list every day.
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