By any means necessary, do what you got to do, get yours before they get theirs, be about your business. Bottom line, be clever, or should I say be shrewd, or go home. It’s the “only” way to get what is rightfully yours in this world. And it is what we see in this parable directly demonstrated by the actions and words of both the enslaved manager, yes enslaved, and the master. It is what we see in this nation demonstrated by both the false sense of security and capitalism. The bondage of security ensnares us by wanting all we can have for ourselves, plus some. Nothing is ever enough. My children needs shoes, good shoes, better shoes, the best shoes. My wife deserves a good car, a better car, a luxury car. I work 12 hours a day, so I can play golf every Saturday with my friends at this fancy golf place…

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How often do we bleed out of our eyes, worrying about the appearance of things when the living God is embodied in the people around us, standing right in front of us?  How tempting is it to condemn the hungry, the poor, the broken for receiving the things the Creator has freely provided because we think to ourselves that they don’t deserve it?

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We must remember as we go about the work of proclaiming the Gospel that the choice to listen to or to reject us, and by extension Christ, is not ours to make for the students on this campus. Let us not rush to judgment when we are not received by the town; when the town chooses to reject us and the Christ in Whose Name we come, let us not in condemnation cast them down to Hades. Let us, instead, remember our own repentance, our own mourning in sackcloth and ashes, when we, too, rejected those who came bearing the Name of Christ.

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