Sometimes, certain
Scripture passages confound me. Today, I
read the parable of the dishonest steward (Luke 16:1-8), who was accused of
squandering his master’s property. What
is Jesus trying to tell me in this parable? I was bewildered about how to write a
reflection on something I wasn’t sure I could interpret properly, so I looked
up some Biblical commentaries online. The
good news for me is that the parable seems to be considered difficult to
understand even by scholars. What
exactly does Jesus mean to tell us about the dishonest steward? Commentators suggest the dishonest steward may
have been giving up his own commission to make things right with his master. I like that explanation, but for some reason I
can’t explain, I’m not sure it makes the message of the parable any clearer for
me. Maybe that’s the point!
My confusion
makes me think that perhaps God is telling me something else in this passage. Sometimes I might not understand completely. Maybe I don’t have to understand completely. God is asking for my love and my faith, which
to me means taking that leap. I don’t
always completely understand, but that shouldn’t stop me from praying, from
asking God for the grace to understand and to ask for the grace to take that
leap of faith, even when I don’t quite understand.
My prayer
today is to ask God for patience and for God to be patient with me.
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