Serve God Only

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 (cf. Luke 16:13)

Introduction: 
In this world there are two kinds of people: there are those who love God and serve Him, and there are others who serve the world and love the things of this world.  There is no middle path, either for God or for world. As it is said in 1 John 2:15. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Let us see what the Lord Himself said about serving masters.

1. No man can serve two masters:
Christ illustrates the necessity of laying up treasures in heaven from a well-known fact, that a servant cannot serve two masters at the same time.  If the servant serves two master, his affections and obedience would be divided, and he would fail altogether in his duty to one or the other. One he would love, and the other he would hate. To the interests of the one he would adhere, and the interests of the other he would neglect. This is a law of human nature.
The supreme affections can be fixed on only one object. So, Christ says, the servant of God or Children of God, cannot at the same time obey him, and be greedy, or seek treasures supremely on earth. One interferes with the other, and one or the other will be, and must be, surrendered, whose orders are directly contrary to the other. 
So here, it is a reminder to all of us that we cannot be serving God and the worldly pleasures at the same time? Whom are we serving? There are only two choices: God or the world. 

2. Mammon -
The word "mammon" is a Syriac word, which signifies money, wealth, riches, substance, and everything that comes under the name of worldly goods. Early Church father Irenaeus says that "mammon” in the Jewish way of speaking, refers to one who is greedy, and would have more than he ought; so according to the Hebrew language, it signifies one that is gluttonous; that is, who cannot refrain himself from gluttony.
In Hebrew “mammon” signifies riches which are opposed to God. This is because it is being loved, admired, trusted in, and worshipped, as if it was God. Mammon is therefore incompatible with the service to the true God: for such people their hearts go after covetousness, and are set upon earthly riches, and are eagerly and anxiously pursuing after them, as they place their confidence in them. Whatever pretensions they may make to the service of God, as did the Scribes and Pharisees, they cannot truly and heartily serve the Lord. 

Conclusion:
So in other words, love for mammon is the cause of all  evil on this earth, that is why St Paul exhorts Timothy, “ For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.” (1 Tim 6:10-11). Shall we obey God’s word in our life and give utmost love and honour to Him alone, who is worthy of all service? May the Lord help us. Amen!