Jesus advocates using material wealth on earth (unrighteous mammon) to gain true riches in heaven. How can you do this?
Charitably to help others. Riches are on loan from God and need to be used to do good to our fellow beings. Keep what we need but not worship them and be overeliant. Avoid getting addicted to storing which would blind us to the others - step over their rights to wellbeing etc in order to gain more to ourselves. arn righteously and if you fhaven`t put it back in the common pot investing in a good charitable cause or give something unnecessary superfluous away or use yoour skills and talents to do something for the others. The Exchange Rate is Riches stored in heaven - a Discount in Purgatory? By: Alessandra Parrini - November 20, 2006 - Public Category: The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
He also said to his
disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a
manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his
possessions. He called
him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an
accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
"The manager said within
himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the
management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to
beg. I know what I will
do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into
their houses.' Calling
each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do
you owe to my lord?' He
said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take
your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' Then said he to another, 'How
much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.'
He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
"His lord commended the
dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this
world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
I tell you, make for
yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail,
they may receive you into the eternal tents. He who is faithful in a very
little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is
also dishonest in much. If therefore you have not been
faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true
riches? If you have not
been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is
your own? No servant can
serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or
else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve
God and mammon." The Pharisees, who
were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at
him. He said to them,
"You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of
men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an
abomination in the sight of God.
