Luke 16:11 · World English Bible
Luke 16:11 Meaning If Therefore You Have Not Been Faithful
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
What does Luke 16:11 mean?
The mind is handed the world's small treasures, the passing things it did not make and cannot keep, and how it holds them shows what teacher it has chosen. Used for attack and hoarding, they confirm the belief in lack and separation, and a mind still convinced of lack cannot yet receive what is real, for it would only try to guard that too.
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The mind is handed the world's small treasures, the passing things it did not make and cannot keep, and how it holds them shows what teacher it has chosen. Used for attack and hoarding, they confirm the belief in lack and separation, and a mind still convinced of lack cannot yet receive what is real, for it would only try to guard that too.
The true riches are the changeless gifts of love, peace and the sight of innocence, which no one loses and no one can steal. They are entrusted to the mind that has learned to hold even the fleeting gently. Faithfulness in the little things is simply the readiness that lets the lasting ones be given.
Mammon: the perishable treasures of the world, the things the mind believes it must gather and defend, standing for every value built on lack.
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Live Luke 16:11 today
- Lend or give away one thing today without tracking it, a book, a tool, twenty dollars, and decide now that you are not going to think about getting it back.
- When someone asks for your time at an inconvenient moment, a neighbor, a coworker at the end of the day, your kid at the worst possible minute, give it without the small sigh first.
- In a week where things are tight, money, hours, patience, make one choice that is generous rather than defensive. Pay for the parking, cover the shortfall, let the other car in.
What am I guarding so carefully that my hands are not free for anything else?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 9
Fill the cup to the brim and it spills. Pile up treasure and you will spend your life guarding it.
Buddhism · on clinging
The grasping hand cannot receive. It is already full of what it is afraid to lose.
Stoicism · Seneca
It is not the small amount that makes a person poor, it is the appetite. Learn to hold a little lightly and much will not unsettle you.
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