Philippians 3:17 - 4:1 / Luke 16:1-8 (2024)
Many a times, some of our best ideas come about out of a desperate situation.
It takes some urgency or emergency to get us to try out ideas and options that we would not have considered before.
Such was the case with the dishonest steward in today's gospel.
This parable can be difficult to interpret and understand if we don't understand the point that Jesus was making.
Jesus was focusing on the urgency and energy with which a worldly man secures his future when it is in jeopardy.
Jesus is even urging us, the children of light, to have an urgency when it comes to our eternal future.
Otherwise, as the 1st reading puts it, we might end up making food into our god and can even be proud of something that we ought to be shameful and worldly things are the only important things to us.
St. Paul urged his people not to give way but to remain faithful to the Lord.
Hence the urgency is not to get into a flurry of activity to prepare for our eternal destiny.
Rather the urgency is in the ordinary and the monotony of life.
When we can be faithful to the Lord in the small ordinary things and remain focused on the Lord despite the monotony of life, then we are prepared for eternal life.