On the other hand, she could see it as a burden and miss a great opportunity to learn. The unjust, shrewd or dishonest manager in Luke was a bad example. Anyone wasting what belongs to another will also later waste what belongs to him.
The employer of this manager fired him because of the reports that he was wasting his goods. Some people make a mistake, saying that Jesus commended this dishonest manager. The master small m in the scripture refers to the rich man. The lesson Jesus wanted to teach with this parable is in verses In this way, your generosity stores up a reward for you in heaven.
And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.
God demands from you faithfulness with what belongs to others. As slaves of Christ, do the will of God with all your heart. Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Whatever you do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord and not unto men, knowing your reward will come from the Lord whom you serve. And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
An unfaithful person is an unreliable person, and nobody wants to continue a relationship with such a person. Proverbs a says a faithful man will abound with blessings. Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. In the parables of the talents and the ten minas, the Bible shows us how the faithful servants were rewarded. They were faithful with what belonged to their master, and therefore, abounded in blessing.
The wicked, lazy, and unprofitable servant, who went to hide in the ground his one talent, was thrown into the outer darkness after the talent had been collected from him and given to the servant who had earned five talents verses 26, Neither have you either one or the other, if you use any part of that estate, which is in truth God's, not yours, any otherwise than he directs.
That which is your own - Heaven, which when you have it, will be your own for ever. That which belongs to God. All who have property should understand that it is another's. Your own. The true riches, because they become a part of our being, the inalienable possession of the redeemed. Acknowledge that whatever others put into you could have yielded dividends if they had put it elsewhere! There is always something that the others lost to be able to invest in you.
Trained as a Civil Engineer at KNUST - Kumasi, he now leads this mighty movement of youthful believers with a deep passion for soul winning and genuine pragmatic faith. Your email address will not be published. Connect with us. Honestly acknowledge what another person has contributed to your life; The man who hid his talent refused to acknowledge what his master has put into his life.
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