NOTES for Luk 16:9-15
9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. |
10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. |
11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? |
12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? |
13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. |
14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. |
15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. |
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One often hears people complain about work. They say, how can anyone take it seriously, everything is tiresome, routine. If only one could drop everything and do something useful for humanity, something bright and beautiful. But there are no such occupations, and while there are none, one has to sit out and wait out a boring and uninteresting job, treating it accordingly.
But Jesus tells us that He cannot entrust us with a great and important work if we cannot show ourselves faithful in something small and unimportant for the fate of humanity. How can people be entrusted to someone who cannot be responsible for things? If we do not begin to treat each day as a test that reveals whether we are fit to do something great and important, we can spend our whole life sitting in dreary expectation.
Readings for 8 November 2025
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