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Friday, May 10, 2024
This past Tuesday just after I’d arrived at our local library for some sermon-study time, I spotted this car. On its dashboard it displays the indentifiers for the two main ride-providers in our area, Uber and Lyft. I paused a moment to ponder this sight (and to snap the photo).
How does this work? I wondered. Let’s say the driver gets ride-requests from both Uber and Lyft at the same time? Which one does he or she respond to? Who gets “first dibs”?
Well, though I’d never seen or heard of anybody working for both companies at once, it must be doable. But it brought to my mind a warning Jesus once gave about the futility of trying to serve two masters. Of course, the “masters” He was speaking of were God and money:
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24 NKJV) “Mammon” was the Aramaic word for money or wealth. As I say, working for Uber and Lyft together might be possible, and even profitable, but with the duo Jesus mentioned, it’s either one or the other.
Want to see more of what the Bible says about money? Click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/money