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Being faithful in small things

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"Then Judas Iscariot—one of his disciples, the man who was to betray him—said, ‘Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?’ He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he was in charge of the common fund and used to help himself to the contents." (John 12.4-6)

These days a question was constantly running through my mind: “When the Lord of Heaven and earth came into this world, why did He choose a person like Judas (whom He knew was dishonest) to entrust money?” I was pondering over this question for the last one week or so.

Just two days back, while I was reciting a Rosary, some thoughts flashed through my mind: It seems that the Lord would have wanted to entrust Judas with money “that tainted thing” (Luke 16:9) to give him an opportunity to be faithful with it so that He could be trusted with true riches.

“Anyone who is trustworthy in little things is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest in little things is dishonest in great. If then you are not trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches? And if you are not trustworthy with what is not yours, who will give you what is your very own? ‘No servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.’" (Luke 16:10-13)


This calls for us to be trustworthy and faithful in administering wealth and temporal things, whether it be money, praise (referring all the praise to God), reparation of sins committed so that we will be trusted with lasting things and true treasures by God.

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