Using, not serving, money

Jesus makes it abundantly clear that we must never serve money; yet, at the very same time he urges us to "make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon" (Matt. 6:24, Luke 16:9). How are we to break the horns of this strange dilemma? We do so by first conquering the spiritual power money has over us, and once we have conquered it we are free to use it for kingdom purposes. We are never to serve money; but having conquered it we are then able to use money for the common good. Never serving. Ever using.

Richard Foster