The Saturday after the Ninth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on August 23, 2025 by under
Scripture: St. Luke 16:10-13 (NKJV)
16:10 “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?
13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
Devotion
The master in the parable of the shrewd steward seems foolish. By not taking away the stewardship immediately, he gave his servant an opportunity to waste more of his possessions. What did he expect to happen? Of course one who was unfaithful in little would continue to be more and more unfaithful.
Contrast this with the widow who gave the two mites, as we read a few days ago. What little she had! Yet, how faithful she was with it. Although at the time no one else noticed, Jesus noticed, and now she is honored by all Christians who read about her in the Gospels.
No matter how much wealth we have been given in this earthly life, we who believe have much with which to be faithful. All those who have been baptized have been given that which is another Man’s, that is, the righteousness and merits which belong to Jesus Christ, true God and true Man. We have been given His Word, His Absolution, and His true Body and Blood. If we are faithful with these tremendous, undeserved gifts, then we will find that God gives us even more at the hour of our death. Then He will give us an eternal crown and restore us to perfect righteousness and joy forever.
Collect: Let Thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of Thy humble servants; and, that they may obtain their petitions, make them to ask such things as shall please Thee; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
