“Those things which we allow to take the chief place in our hearts have the most power to give us grief.”

Both in Matthew and Luke Jesus warns us that we can not serve two masters…we either serve the living God or in these verses, the love of money. While again, in Matthew 23:8, Jesus exhorts us to not fall into the temptation of exalting ourselves with titles, and the self-seeking of authority and honor…thus, serving ourselves not God. So as Believers, we must constantly remember that, ” Sin shall not be your master…” (Romans 6:14) or as Paul continues in verse 16, we are slaves only to the one we obey…that being either death or obedience to God. But besides these examples, we also can’t allow the masterful dominion of our heart with greed, resentment, lust, pride, or hatred….all which can and will only cause us unending grief and suffering.