Submitted by Lazarus on July 3, 2017

Jesus says these words right after telling His disciples not to worry about how their earthly needs will be met. And so we interpret these words to mean that God will take care of our earthly needs. And there’s nothing wrong with that interpretation. We should have a deep and abiding trust in God and love for Him, which, the more it is cultivated, will enable us not to spend our time worrying, even if our situation looks dire from an earthly point of view.

But if we leave this there, then we will be missing the much bigger point in this passage from Matthew 6. After all, is Jesus concerned only with our earthly, physical well-being?

God of course does care about our earthly well-being. However, that is not what He came here to take care of. A God Whom we imagine primarily as seeing to our earthly needs is a God Who is a kind of useful accessory to life. Some people actually do treat Him that way. They ask God to come around like a divine butler or personal shopper or consultant or helpful professional to assist in whatever they’ve got going on.

Or maybe God is there as the spiritual feature in a good life that is mainly concerned about a lot else. I’ve got everything in my life lined up—job, marriage, house, kids, hobbies, possessions, etc. Oh, and I’ve got some religion, too. Thanks, God!

But it turns out that that’s not why God showed up, either.

God showed up to bring us His Kingdom and His righteousness. And that’s what Jesus says here that we are to seek first.

The key to understanding this comes at the beginning of today’s Gospel, where the Lord Jesus says: “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

So we’re talking about light and darkness here, and Jesus points to the eye as being the key image in this metaphor. “The eye is the lamp of the body.” We all can identify with that. When you can see well, your whole life is affected. What you see with your eye affects everything. If you can see well, you know where to go. You can see your path. You can avoid obstacles. You can avoid getting hurt. You have purpose. You have direction.

But if you can’t see, you have a problem. You are missing what there is to see. You can’t walk around well. You can’t see where you’re going. You can easily get hurt by bumping into things.

That’s why Jesus says, “If your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness.” The rest of your body will have a hard time doing what it needs to do if the eye isn’t working. And then He says, “If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” What should be showing you the way is now obscuring the way from you.

What does this have to do with seeking the Lord’s Kingdom and His righteousness? Well, how can you see where to go if what should be lighting your way isn’t lighting your way? How do you plan to get to the Kingdom if you can’t see how to get there?

Right after Jesus uses the metaphor of the eye as the lamp of the body, He then says this: “No one 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 mammon.” “Mammon” is money—material possessions.

This is why Jesus says, “Is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothing?” If your biggest concern in life is food or clothing, or any other earthly material matter, then you have a problem. Isn’t your soul more than that? Isn’t even your body more than that?

So what does it mean to have your eye darkened? It means that you’re serving the wrong master. It means that you’re serving money and possessions. And if possessions are your master, then God is not your master, for no one can serve two masters. Your devotion goes only one way. You have to pick. Really. You have to pick. Pick one.
God’s Speed,

A comprehensive take-down of the Khazarian mafia continues around the world. The biggest developments were at the top ranks of the Vatican where the Vatican Finance Minister and Number 3 honcho, Australian Cardinal George Pell was suspended after being indicted for child rapes. As a result “the pedos are in full panic mode,” Pentagon officials say. Francis also removed another top honcho, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, from his post has head of Doctrine and replaced him with a moderate.

The suspension of Pell as Finance Minister is almost certainly related to the goings on at Bougaineville and Papua New Guinea, areas under Australian control, and therefore Pell’s bailiwick, White Dragon Society sources say. The revelation that only about 3% of the money from minerals being extracted in PNG is going to the locals completely contradicts Pope Francis’s vow the turn the Catholic Church into a “poor church for the poor.”

The WDS plan to connect the gold in Bougaineville to crypto-currencies, with US and Russian military backing, and thus completely by-pass the existing Vatican and Khazarian mafia controlled financial system must have added urgency to the Vatican’s moves to remove Cardinal Pell.

The removal of the German Mueller, who was seen by many as the head of the resistance to Pope Francis’s moves to make the church more easy-going, is also a significant defeat for the Khazarian mafia and their proxies, P2 Freemason sources say. This removal is probably going to affect what happens with the Knights of Malta, where a German/British split has been papered over leading to a stalemate at the top of the most important military spiritual order in the West. This in turn will affect how the US military industrial complex is run.

In other words, the fanatical faction that still wants to start World War 3 has lost its most senior backers, WDS sources say.

Another other big development last week was the arrival of the aircraft USS Bush in Israel. The Mossad site DEBKA expressed confusion about the arrival of the carrier because it apparently was not there attack either Iran or Syria.

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In fact, Pentagon sources say, the arrival of the carrier in Israel is a “blunt message that…(Full report will be posted midnight EDT on Thursday. ~ Dinar Chronicles)

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(A Psalm of Asaph.) God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
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How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
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Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
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They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
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I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
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But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
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Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

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