Explanation of the heart

After Luke 16:1-13

How we use what we’ve been given

explains our heart

explains our theory of the future

explains our hope in the temporal

explains our hope for eternal family.

The people you know in eternity

will be thankful for how God used

you to get them there, or will be

gnashing their teeth for how

you helped get them there. Will you

receive the steward’s reward

of be found guilty of embezzlement

God’s resources? And so, a daily question:

what do you have

that might be put

to work to change

someone else’s

life?

The answer will explain

your heart.

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The chase

After Luke 16:1-13

The chase is on (or,

the game’s afoot, Watson),

beginning with a choice:

choose the one or

choose the other;

choose riches or

choose true riches.

The chase requires

one hundred percent,

or more, neither choice

allowing a divided loyalty,

so it’s pursue one or

pursue the other.

Choose one or

the choice is made

by default.

You can’t choose both.

You can’t not choose.

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A little is a lot

After Luke 16:1-13

Being faithful in a little

holds the promise and likelihood

of being faithful in a lot,

and the converse is true:

being dishonest in a little 

holds the possibility and likelihood

of being dishonest in a lot.

A little is a lot,

and the money aside,

what will you do

with true riches, true wealth;

what will you do

with the great blessing 

entrusted to you. A choice:

serve one or serve the other.

Both demand complete devotion,

and you must choose between

a little and a lot.

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Put your money

After Luke 16:1-13

Dismissal stared him in the face.

Therefore: step strong, act quickly.

To have friends after the fall,

he reduced debts, writing off the losses

for future gains and making friends

through shrewd dishonesty,

calculated through experience,

learned through a lifetime

of attitude, action, activity, avarice.

The master laughed.

The shrewdness was laudable

in its consistency, putting his money

where is heart was.

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