Romans 15:14-21 / Luke 16:1-8 (2019)
Many a times, our best ideas come about out of a desperate situation.
It takes an urgency to get us to try out ideas that we may not have even thought of before.
Such was the case with the steward in today's gospel parable.
It might sound rather confusing to us that that master praised the dishonest steward for his astuteness.
But the point here is not about the steward's dishonest but his astuteness.
Jesus is focusing on the urgency and energy with which a worldly man secures his future at a time of reckoning.
And He even urged that we, the children of the light, should learn from that, and ensure that our own future is not in jeopardy.
We must not be dishonest or immoral; in fact we are called to be upright and moral especially when we are faced with so much temptation to enter into the dark side.
But we are children of the light. We must believe that the light will prevail and scatter the darkness. Then the truth of each person will be revealed.