16 Luke - Making the Best out of Every Situation

By Richard

In Luke 16:1-9 we have one of those parables that Jesus told that is hard to understand. A manager gets fired for his mismanagement of finances and so reasoning that he’s done for he uses his last hours at work to make a few friends. He calls people into his office that owe the master money and tells them to take out their balance sheets and half their debts. When the master finds out he actually praises the manager for his shrewd dealings.

Jesus tells us that he wants us to be like the manager. He doesn’t want us to “complacently get by on good behaviour”, but, using every good means possible, he wants us to engage in life and to allow adversity to stimulate our highest creativity. Jesus wants us to, “live, really live!”

In a sense really living is figuring out how to make the best out of every situation