Hi All,
I am new here.
To me in the least, one of the crucial parables by which Jesus Christ presented, in simple words, the ‘spiritual realm’ in our ‘life reality’ is what is known as the parable of the Unjust Steward {Luke 16:1}.
The following is what I learnt from it. So please don’t hesitate to correct anything I say that doesn’t look logical to you.
[1] The rich man refers to God (the One Will/Power of the Father in Heaven and Jesus; unified by the Divine Spirit of Love, the Holy Spirit)
[2] The steward refers to my being (or any other human being).
[3] The stewardship refers to the temporary life that was given to me by my Creator, God.
(4) The ending of the stewardship refers to the death of my mortal living flesh.
(5) The goods that the steward is responsible of refer to whatever I may have in my life.
(6) The lord’s debtors refer to the other human beings whom I may meet.
(7) The mammon of unrighteousness refers to any of the things I may have in life because it is not mine in the first place. I mean if I have something in this world really, I would be able keeping it forever. But, as it happened to the steward in this parable, I will lose, sooner or later at the death of my mortal flesh, all things that were supposed to be mine.
I guess, you may know now why Jesus says:
“… And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely”.
Jesus even explained it by adding:
“Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations “.
Naturally, I try always my best, till my actual stewardship ends, to be like this ‘unjust steward’ and be generous (as possible) towards all others, friends and enemies, with what I got from God since my birth.
Kerim
I am new here.
To me in the least, one of the crucial parables by which Jesus Christ presented, in simple words, the ‘spiritual realm’ in our ‘life reality’ is what is known as the parable of the Unjust Steward {Luke 16:1}.
The following is what I learnt from it. So please don’t hesitate to correct anything I say that doesn’t look logical to you.
[1] The rich man refers to God (the One Will/Power of the Father in Heaven and Jesus; unified by the Divine Spirit of Love, the Holy Spirit)
[2] The steward refers to my being (or any other human being).
[3] The stewardship refers to the temporary life that was given to me by my Creator, God.
(4) The ending of the stewardship refers to the death of my mortal living flesh.
(5) The goods that the steward is responsible of refer to whatever I may have in my life.
(6) The lord’s debtors refer to the other human beings whom I may meet.
(7) The mammon of unrighteousness refers to any of the things I may have in life because it is not mine in the first place. I mean if I have something in this world really, I would be able keeping it forever. But, as it happened to the steward in this parable, I will lose, sooner or later at the death of my mortal flesh, all things that were supposed to be mine.
I guess, you may know now why Jesus says:
“… And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely”.
Jesus even explained it by adding:
“Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations “.
Naturally, I try always my best, till my actual stewardship ends, to be like this ‘unjust steward’ and be generous (as possible) towards all others, friends and enemies, with what I got from God since my birth.
Kerim