No One Can Serve Two Lords – Oscar Romero

The present form of the world passes away, and there remains only the joy of having used this world to establish God’s rule here. All pomp, all triumphs, all selfish capitalism, all the false successes of life will pass with the world’s form. All of that passes away. What does not pass away is love. When one has turned money, property, work in one’s calling into service of others, then the joy of sharing and the feeling that all are one’s family does not pass away. In the evening of life you will be judged on love. I wish to affirm that my preaching is not political. It naturally touches on the political – and it touches the people’s real lives – but it does so in order to illuminate those realities and to tell people what it is that God wants and what it is that he does not want.

No one can serve two lords. There is only one God, and that God will either be the true one, who asks us to give things up when they become sin, or it will be the god of money, who makes us turn our back on Christianity’s God. — The Violence of Love, pp. 119-120