Luke 16:1-17 - Parable of the Unjust Steward
Shrewd = Keen, artful, astute, innovative. Words that are associated to the word.
This chapter that I read is really interesting. Shrewd, a not so good word but yet something that we may neglect the benefits when we serve. The two things that shrewdness one that could come to grips with a crisis of a real situation and one that produces an energetic, sagacious plan to solve life's problem. Jesus affirms the willingness in us to dare to believe that there is nothing too big for God. Seek and ask for wisdom on matters on our knees in consecration. James 1:5 - ?.... a verse that God already have affirmed his willingness to give wisdom when we need it. When the Lord allows us to drift into complexities which to us seem to be unsolvable, so that He can be the source of the solution, let us see these opportunities as potential, potential for God to use his given intellect, emotion, will in us to devise a plan that will astound us and the people around us....may the glory of Him be magnified. Let us see difficulties as a dynamic prelude to new advancement. That include what is describe in this parable. If an unjust steward could us money to gain friends, why can't the children of light use to make friends, influencing the people with the same power available that raised Jesus from the dead instead of the media. Our purpose is to use material resources as an expression of our friendship with God to make others His friends. That's the purpose of tithing and giving to Christian causes (woah from the book)...Indeed I fully agree. As Wesley was right: "Earn all you can, save all you can and give all you can." I believe as what the book have written, The Lord wants shrewdness in the earning and distribution of our money. In v13 speaks clearly, I just like to add another verse Mark 12:28-33 - Love God with all your heart......everything's possible now with a keen ardent, wholehearted response.
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