Friday, June 24, 2011

The Shrewd Manager !

There was a certain rich man who had a manager !
Against the manager there was an accusation,
He was abusing his possessions in undue manner,
He was summoned to give accounts of his position,
Immediately,that he can't be manager there after.

Manager spoke to himself,"I 've no strength to plow,
I am ashamed to beg" he said,"what I'll do, I know",
He called the lord's first debtor,"How much do you owe ?",
He reduced his oil debt by half,he called the second also,
He corrected hundred bushels of wheat in to eighty, did so

The lord commended the dishonest manager's wisdom,
Children of the world are wiser than the children of light,
They befriend the unrighteous mammon as an income,
He is faithful in a little, faithful also in much that is outright,
He who is dishonest in a little,also in much a sad dictum.

If you have not been faithful in handling wealth,
Who will trust you with riches which are true reality ?
Transparent reliability is but a sign of good health,
You have not been faithful with some one's property,
Alas ! you may be given nothing and end in dire poverty.

No servants can serve two masters because,
For either he will hate the one,love the other,
Or else he will hold one and despise for no cause,
You can't serve both God and mammon together,
Money is not an end in itself its only a resource.
Footnote:
Luke 16: 1-13
Yesupatham Savarimuthu

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