Thought Quotient

Every day, you and I, as believers in Jesus Christ, are confronted by things that require us to choose between two different worlds — that of the eternal Kingdom of God, and that of the world-environment in which we presently live. Those choices always revolve around one question: Is my character commanded by my Master, or by the mastery of the world whose games I can, with such ease, choose to play shrewdly?

In Luke 16, Jesus tells His disciples a story about an unjust steward whose master commends his crooked dealings by saying, “The sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light” (v. 8 ).

By “generation,” Jesus is not talking about a span of years, but the generation of a world that people are born into. All of us are born into this world, but when we receive new life in Jesus Christ, we are reborn—regenerated into another world. We choose not just a Savior, but whether we will live totally and completely of His re-generation.” In saying “the sons of this world are more shrewd” than the children of Light, Jesus is not saying that it’s clever to cheat, but that the children of the world’s generation work their system to the max (although it ultimately catches up with them). However, the children of Light, He says, are not as willing to commit one hundred percent to their system—to say, “Lord, everything I have is Yours: my money, my time, my priorities, my life.” And Jesus concludes by saying that there is one choice that settles it all: Who do I serve? - Jack Hayford, Jack Hayford Ministries

Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.