NOTES for Luk 16:9-15
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.