masters

• on Urantia every man must serve two

109:5.4The great prob­lem of life is the ad­just­ment of the an­ces­tral ten­den­cies of liv­ing to the de­mands of the spir­i­tual urges ini­ti­ated by the di­vine pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. While in the uni­verse and super­uni­verse ca­reers no man can serve two mas­ters, in the life you now live on Uran­tia ev­ery man must per­force serve two mas­ters. He must be­come adept in the art of a con­tin­u­ous hu­man tem­po­ral com­pro­mise while he yields spir­i­tual al­le­giance to but one mas­ter; and this is why so many fal­ter and fail, grow weary and suc­cumb to the stress of the evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle.

• no man can serve two

140:6.13And then Thomas asked Je­sus if they should “con­tinue hav­ing ev­ery­thing in com­mon.” Said the Mas­ter: “Yes, my breth­ren, I would that we should live to­gether as one un­der­stand­ing fam­ily. You are in­trusted with a great work, and I crave your un­di­vided ser­vice. You know that it has been well said: ‘No man can serve two mas­ters.’ You can­not sin­cerely wor­ship God and at the same time whole­heart­edly serve mam­mon. Hav­ing now en­listed un­re­servedly in the work of the king­dom, be not anx­ious for your lives; much less be con­cerned with what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor yet for your bod­ies, what cloth­ing you shall wear. Al­ready have you learned that will­ing hands and earnest hearts shall not go hun­gry. And now, when you pre­pare to de­vote all of your en­er­gies to the work of the king­dom, be as­sured that the Fa­ther will not be un­mind­ful of your needs. Seek first the king­dom of God, and when you have found en­trance thereto, all things need­ful shall be added to you. Be not, there­fore, un­duly anx­ious for the mor­row. Suf­fi­cient for the day is the trou­ble thereof.”

• no man can serve two

163:3.1By the time Je­sus had fin­ished talk­ing with Mata­dor­mus, Pe­ter and a num­ber of the apos­tles had gath­ered about him, and as the rich young man was de­part­ing, Je­sus turned around to face the apos­tles and said: “You see how dif­fi­cult it is for those who have riches to en­ter fully into the king­dom of God! Spir­i­tual wor­ship can­not be shared with ma­te­rial de­vo­tions; no man can serve two mas­ters. You have a say­ing that it is ‘eas­ier for a camel to go through the eye of a nee­dle than for the hea­then to in­herit eter­nal life.’ And I de­clare that it is as easy for this camel to go through the nee­dle’s eye as for these self-sat­is­fied rich ones to en­ter the king­dom of heaven.”

• no man can serve two

169:2.7“And again I as­sert that no man can serve two mas­ters; ei­ther he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to one while he de­spises the other. You can­not serve God and mam­mon.”