Today’s Thought “Treasure in Heaven?” G. Ward

Luke 16

12  And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will

give you that which is your own?

The culminating interrogation from this parable concerning the Unrighteous

Manager, witnesses against every character revealed as unscrupulous. Moreover,

they’re deemed “shrewd” as endeavoring things and posture outside the realm of

eternal significance (cf. Matt.6:19-21). The rich owner, who would ultimately fire

this manager for that to which he himself had been guilty of (i.e., impropriety of

sorts), identified (easily) the kind of treachery from such a manager and whether

he cured from this kind of malfeasance, we don’t know; but what we learn is how

to look at what’s been afforded us (i.e., what’s been given us as managers), asking

ourselves, how well have we done with it(?). When it’s all over (in earth), are we

most consumed with our names in an archive soon forgotten; particularly that to

which celebrated owning houses and land, so protectant in all we worked hard

for, to face an eternity – entirely questionable, because our treasures in earth, so

proprietary unto us, insisted we knew God, but never recognized HIM as Owner

(Ps.24:1)?