Jesus said to
his disciples: “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour
when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You
also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will
come.”
Then Peter
said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?” And the Lord
replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will
put in charge of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper
time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. Truly,
I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property. But if that
servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat
the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, then that
servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will
punish the servant severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations nor act
in accord with his will shall be beaten severely; and the servant who was
ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating
shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with
much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”
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Reflection:
Are you a
faithful and prudent steward of the Lord?
We are all
just stewards of everything that we have right now. It’s not ours everything
that we have right now is only lent to us. As such, we should properly
manage what we have in our possession. We should all be worthy stewards; we
should put to good use whatever talents that God has given us.
However, if
we would not be up to the task that God has given us. We can rest assure that
eventually everything that we have will be taken from us because we were not
worthy of the blessings that God has bestowed on us.
The gospel
today talks about the coming of the Son of Man. The servants who were caught
unaware were busy doing their own thing. These servants are like some of us;
always very busy with the things of this world. We forget God or God becomes
only our second or third priority.
We must put
God forward first, before anything else it should be God first. How about the
things of this world? It should be secondary. When we put God first and we
abhor sin everything else would follow including our need for material things. - Marino
J. Dasmarinas
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