Gospel: Luke 16:1-8
Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward who was reported
to him for squandering his property. He summoned him and said, ‘What is this I
hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no
longer be my steward. The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that
my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong
enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. I know what I shall do so that, when I
am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’ He
called in his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, ‘How much do
you owe my master? He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil. He said to
him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty. Then
to another he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe? He replied, ‘One hundred measures of wheat. He said to him, ‘Here is
your promissory note write one for eighty. And the master commended that
dishonest steward for acting prudently. For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their
own generation than the children of light.”
+ + + + + + +
Reflection:
Why was the steward removed from his position as the fund manager of
his master? Because he became complacent and negligent on his job. Otherwise if
he did his job competently he would have not been removed but he became
complacent.
On the surface it may seem that the only issue here is the incompetence
of the steward. But in a deeper sense there is a lesson that we could all learn
from the steward. When he learned that he was suddenly to be removed fear
suddenly set-in to him. He was worried about his future for the reason that he
would be without a job.
Therefore to ingrain a debt of gratitude from their debtors and to
assure his survival he collected their debts with a discount. With the fervent
hope that they would take care of him when he is finally dismissed from his
job. On the first debtor he discounted fifthly
and on the second he discounted twenty. Suddenly this complacent steward became
very creative because what was at stake was his very survival.
We are
also being reminded to be creative not in assuring our survival in this world. For
the simple reason that all that we have in this world are all temporary and
passing. We are reminded to be creative in sharing our faith in Jesus most
specially during this time wherein technology is very advance.
Let us therefore creatively harness the many social
media portals that are available at our disposal to continuously share Jesus.
For this will assure us of survival not in this world anymore but our survival after
our lives in this world is over and done with already. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
No comments:
Post a Comment