Gospel: Luke 16:1-13
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 the steward said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘One
hundred kors of wheat.’ The steward 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 are the children of light. I tell you, make
friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will
be welcomed into eternal dwellings.The person who is trustworthy in very small
matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in
very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. If, therefore, you are not
trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs
to another, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters.
He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise
the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.”
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Reflection:
Do you recognize
that what you have right now like money, power, earthly wealth and the like is
not actually yours? Many of us are acting like everything that we have we
earned by the sweat of our brow. So, we get to selfish with what we have we
cling to it as if our life hinges upon it.
We fail to realize
that we are simply stewards of what we own in this world. We fail to realize
that at God’s appointed time we will be accounting for everything that we’ve
owned in this world.
And during that time
the dear Lord will ask us: “What have
you done to the things that I’ve entrusted you? Such as your talent, your
wealth, your time and even your life.” Did you only use it to advance your own
selfish agenda in this world?
The steward in our
gospel failed miserably in his assigned task to properly take care of the
wealth that was entrusted to him by his master. Therefore everything that was entrusted to him
was taken back by his master, the rich man.
We to are merely
stewards of what we have right now, we did not earn it by ourselves. God’s
invisible hand helped us to earn what we have right now.
Yet, many of us are
acting as if we earned it all, so many of us become worshipper of the God
called greed and we purposely don’t share and we don’t help even if we have the
means to do so. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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