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One of the reasons He gives is that anxiety about food and raiment and the world’s things is serving mammon, and we cannot serve God and mammon at the same time. The mind must be centred before it can have perfect peace. It must have one motive, one aim, one allegiance, one ground of confidence. If it is divided between two interests, there will be distraction, and the peace will be broken. Anxiety is a sin, because it is not trusting God fully and wholly. It is trusting money to provide for our wants, instead of trusting God. When money fails, then we are in distress. George Macdonald says again:
“How often do we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go.” We feel safe enough when mammon’s abundance fills the pantry and the wardrobe. But when mammon’s supplies are exhausted, and we have only God, we worry. What we need is to train ourselves to such trust and confidence in God, that, though mammon’s resources fail us altogether, we shall not be afraid, because we have God. A man is in a pitiful plight when mammon is his God. Money is a good thing, in its place. It is one of God’s blessings. But when it gets to be a man’s master it is turned into a curse. We all need to guard ourselves from the peril of mammon-worship.
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