Follow One Master
Only
What a sad life does he lead who wants both
to please the world and to serve God! It is a great mistake to make, my
friends. Apart from the fact that you are going to be unhappy all the time, you
can never attain the stage at which you will be able to please the world and
please God. It is as impossible a feat as trying to put an end to eternity.
Take the advice that I am going to give you now and you will be less unhappy:
give yourselves wholly to God or else wholly to the world. Do not look for and
do not serve more than one master, and once you have chosen the one you are
going to follow, do not leave him. You surely remember what Jesus Christ said
to you in the Gospel: you cannot serve God and Mammon; that is to say, you
cannot follow the world and the pleasures of the world and Jesus Christ with
His Cross. Of course you would be quite willing to follow God just so far and
the world just so far! Let me put it even more clearly: you would like it if
your conscience, if your heart, would allow you to go to the altar in the
morning and the dance in the evening; to spend part of the day in church and
the remainder in the cabarets or other places of amusement; to talk of God at
one moment and the next to tell obscene stories or utter calumnies about your
neighbour; to do a good turn for your next-door neighbour on one occasion and
on some other to do him harm; in other words, to do good and speak well when
you are with good people and to do wrong when you are in bad company.
Image taken from Waiting for the Word
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