Chanukah - Day 3

. The lesson for today is that we do not live for the world, but for Christ. The Scripture says, “No one can serve two masters. 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 both God and Money.” Mt 6:24
. We live in a time when all too many people want to live like others in the world. We want what they have, we want to live the life they live, and we never consider whether the things we do are of God or not. Consider: what are the themes and language in the movies we watch?
. Thus it was in the days of the Maccabees. Some of the Hebrews departed from their God and sought the lifestyle of the Greeks. They accepted their gods and their lifestyle. When the Greeks brought an idol to the town of Modin and asked people to bow down, at least one man was willing. But the priest Mattathias refused setting an example of how we are to follow God even in the face of adversity.
. “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
. “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives." (1 John 1:5-10)