The Pharisees heard Jesus say, “You can’t serve God and money.”Predictably they did not think what Jesus said was funny,
for they, Luke wrote, loved mammon, and in their own haughty view
they saw themselves as experts in religious matters, too.
And so they ridiculed him for the drastic things he said.
But Jesus, in his unique manner, censured them instead:
“You Pharisees are doing what you have been from the start.
You justify yourself to others, but God knows your heart!”
What human beings value most and strive for day and night
becomes an idol and is thus abhorrent in God’s sight.
Could Jesus’ words not be applied to our society,
where monetary values govern the economy?
And would most people not react as did the Pharisees,
if any one in Jesus name should utter words like these?
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