Daily Dose of Hope
September 5, 2025
Scripture – Luke 16:1-18
Prayer: Abba Father, Prepare our hearts for your Word today. Help us approach this Scripture with an openness to learning something new from you. Jesus, thank you for your perfect example of mercy and love. More of you and less of me. In Your Name, Amen.
Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, the devotional and podcast that complements the Bible reading plan for New Hope Church in Brandon, Florida. We are currently doing a deep dive into the Gospels and Acts. It’s Friday, yay!, and we are beginning Luke 16.
This chapter has us interpreting more parables. Just as Luke put like parables together in Luke 15 (the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son), Luke pairs the parable of the shrewd manager that we read today with the parable of Lazarus and the rich man which we will read tomorrow. Both address the topic of money from various perspectives.
In today’s parable, we meet a manager who is accused of not being a good steward of his master’s possessions. In fact, it seems he had been a bit careless and the master was planning to hold him accountable. The manager, seeing that his fate wasn’t good, decided he needed to get to work. He made shrewd deals with the master’s debtors and recovered not all, but at least a good portion of what was owed. This pleases the master.
After Jesus offers this teaching, he goes on, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” Basically, if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? If you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?
Jesus continues his teaching in verses 10-13,“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the
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