Luke 16:1-4

Rachel Workman: 'Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. 2 So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’ I have no doubt that I waste plenty of my possessions. I think this even something I look at in my own children. When they come to me to me for more, I'm very interested in knowing how they have managed what I've already given them. If we want more we need to manage what we have better. The more will usually fall into place.

3 “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg— 4 I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’

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John Burnett:  6 Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was ^[a]reported to him as squandering his possessions. ² And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ ³ The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my ^[b]master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’  God gives us everything we have and we are the managers in this story.  I know I fall way short when it comes to managing what He gives me in way that is pleasing to Him.

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Tomorrow’s reading for Luke 16:5-7

⁵ “So he invited each person who owed money to his employer to come and discuss the situation. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe him?’ ⁶ The man replied, ‘I owe him 800 gallons of olive oil.’ So the manager told him, ‘Take the bill and quickly change it to 400 gallons.^[a]’
⁷ “‘And how much do you owe my employer?’ he asked the next man. ‘I owe him 1,000 bushels of wheat,’ was the reply. ‘Here,’ the manager said, ‘take the bill and change it to 800 bushels.^[b]’