Faithul With Little

Read Luke 16:1-13

Jesus taught many parables. Each with significance about the Kingdom of God and each with significance for His followers to listen and learn. In this parable found in Luke 16 Jesus sums up everything with these last few verses saying whoever can be trusted with very little, can be trusted with much and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

The story goes there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. This manager is called to account and realizing he's going to lose his job decides to be prudent and collect what is owed his manager by negotiating down the amounts his master's debtors owed while at the same time gaining favor for himself with these debtors. He's thinking when I lose my job these people will welcome me into their homes.

While we may think this is dishonest, the master we're told in v. 8 commends this manager for acting shrewdly. He commends him for knowing how to be wise, using what he can in this world to gain friends for his support. Now we see that Jesus goes on to say use worldly wealth to gain friends so that when it is gone you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

Jesus' closing point in this passage is that we can't serve two masters. We can't serve both God and Money. We will love one and hate the other. Jesus wants us to be faithful managers of what He's given us in this world for the benefit of our Master. Let's be people no matter if we have very little or if we have much who are always faithful, serving God with all we have.