Dark vs Light

The world can be very cut throat. I have worked for two managers who were outright dishonest. Those managers would take credit for the actions of others and unfairly blame others for their own mistakes. Those managers made the people who worked for them miserable. I remember at one point thinking, “How can upper management continue to support this person? How can they allow these actions to persist?” The following scripture brings me some comfort and understanding.

Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’
“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg-I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’”
“So, he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’”
“‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil, ‘he replied.”
“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.’”
“Then he asked the second, ‘and how much do you owe?’”
“’’A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied”
“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’”
“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.”

Now, you and I would expect the master to be outraged at his situation. Instead he commends the dishonest manager. This world, including the workworld is often controlled by darkness. So, rather than be frustrated by the darkness of this world, take comfort that you are a child of the light who does not call this dark world home.