Paint Party Friday: The Dishonest Steward

 "Rejoice with me because I have found 

the coin that I lost." Luke 15:9

In the 15th chapter of Luke, we have parables 

of the lost sheep, lost coin and a lost son. 

The sheep is wandering in the wilderness, in danger. 

The coin was misplaced, it's just in 

the home of a woman who searches high and low for it. 

The prodigal son actually chooses to be lost.

Whatever way we or someone we love is lost, 

Jesus shows us through these stories, 

that even if we are lost in the wilderness, 

out of the church, or lost within the church, 

and even if we choose to rebel against God, 

He will turn on the lamp and search high and low for us. 

And like the Father, will wait for us longingly, eagerly.

It's a crazy love God has for us. 

Even if others give up on us, God will not. 

Even if we are filthy and heavy (with sin) like 

the sheep in the wilderness, Jesus will carry us. 

And every time, God celebrates 

when we come back to Himself!

 "His master praised the dishonest manager 

for acting shrewdly and prudently; 

for the sons of men are shrewder and more prudent 

and wiser in relation to their own generation 

than are the sons of light." Luke 16:8

Whaaaat?!!!  This is a complicated, confusing story! 

Why is Jesus telling a parable about a 

dishonest manager being commended by 

his master, his boss, for being shrewd???

Recently in our business there has been 

a rash of dishonest employees. 

They each found ingenuous ways of stealing money. 

And in a way I can relate to the boss in the story 

and can say, "Wow! These employees really used their talents, 

their brains, their creativity to 

find a way to get what they wanted!"  

If only they used their God-given 

abilities and gifts for something good! 

And I think this is partly what Jesus is saying in this parable. 

We should use our time, talent and treasure to do good, 

to gain friends, to build the Kingdom of Heaven, 

and to have treasure there! 

We should be shrewder, wiser, and more prudent 

than worldly men who rule this world with impunity. 

And we have God at our side to do it! 

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