31st Week OT (S)
We cannot serve two Masters. Jesus doesn't say, “You may not serve two Masters.” He says, “You cannot serve two Masters.” Serving a Master is an exclusive gig. You serve, or you don't. If you are serving Jack and Jill, then you are actually serving neither. Jesus' point here is that you are serving God or you aren't. There is no in-between. Loyalty divided is no loyalty at all. This absolutist choice is imposed by the nature of the Enemy. Evil is the absence of the Good. Evil is nothing. And nothing is absolute. It's no-thing. As such, no compromise is tolerated. No accommodation with God is possible. The best we can say about evil is that when – in moments of weakness – we choose to serve evil, we're telling ourselves that we are doing Good. We're doing something that we think is Good. In that moment, we cannot serve God. So, we make a choice from the start, to serve God and Him alone. This means that we put on the mind of Christ, follow him, and stick as close as we can to one another in the Church. When we inevitably fall, we return as fast as possible to God's service, admitting our sin and receiving His mercy. What we don't do is assume that our mistaken view of the Good is the truly Good and demand that the other members of the Body accept our foolishness as true. At that point, we are serving the Enemy. If we consistently choose to see Evil as Good, we become servants of Folly. We become fools. For the sake of our eternal lives, it is far better to become fools for Christ and serve the Father as the Son served us.
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