I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
Luke 16:9
This parable of the shrewd manager is always intriguing and challenging. This verse is the bottom line of it: use worldly wealth to gain friends - friends that we can introduce to the kingdom if God.
This means that we have to live generously and give money to others and not just hoard it for ourselves.
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Luke 16:13
Money does become a god very easily. If we love and hold on tightly to money, it becomes our god in place of the true God.
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
Luke 16:31 NIV
Luke 16:31 NIV
We/ I often think like the rich man. We want God to perform some miracle to make people believe. But the truth is that people won't believe in God just because of a miracle. God had already given sufficient evidence in scripture and history. If someone doesn't believe from those, the miracle won't convince them.
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