25th Sunday of Ordinary Time

 

Stewards Lk. 16:1-13

If you were rich and worked hard all your life, would you want to see all your hard work and money squandered by some banker or lawyer or employee.

Well neither does God.

God is rich; beyond rich.

Everything you see God made.

The mountains, the oceans, the plains.

The stars and the planets.

Ever since Adam and Eve,

God has made us stewards of His creation.

And one day, just like the rich man in the Gospel;

God is going to ask us to give an accounting of what we have done with all that He gave us.

It doesn’t matter how much God gave us,

What matters is what we have done with what God gave us.

Whether great of small.

Today is a good day to take an inventory all that we have.

Sit down with a piece of paper

And write down all the blessings;

All the riches;

All the things;

All the people in your life

And then ask yourself.

How have I taken care of these things?

How have I used them?

Because God is going to ask an accounting of all that He gave us.

And if we have not squandered it;

He will bless us with even more in Eternity.

Because He can trust us.

But if we have not!

If we misused the gifts He gave us;

Mistreated the people He put in our lives.

If we pocketed His Riches.

What do you think God will do?

What would you do if you were in God’s shoes,

And someone had misused, mistreated or pocketed what you had given to someone to take care of?