Two Masters

Jesus says that you cannot serve two masters. You will love one and pretty much forget the other. He might have been talking about the Sabbath. Six days a week our master seems to be our work, plans, exercise, shopping, and whatnot that pretty much master us. On the Sabbath we are supposed to have only one master, God. In our religious culture, serving God on the Sabbath pretty much means we go to church. Then for the rest of the day, some other project seems to take over our lives. We are mastered by some of the things we did for the other six days, but we might add something such as a housekeeping project, or watching sports on TV. Sabbath has become a "Free Day". Free for what? We don't free much of it up for God, and we are hardly free of the slavish or addictive response we make to so much other stuff. Many of us serve only one master, our compulsive 24/7.