How Will We Know?

The words are ancient, but the message is as current as tomorrow’s headlines:
“You cannot be the slave both of God and money.”

It’s a line we’ve heard before. But familiarity doesn’t make it any easier to live. In a world where money buys almost everything—comfort, convenience, credentials—it can be easy to mistake wealth for worth. Harder still to remember what cannot be bought.

And in moments of decision, we ask what people of faith have always asked: how will we know if we’re choosing what truly matters?

That is what Jesus is addressing in today’s Gospel: not just economics, but allegiance. Not just finance, but faith.

In this parable, Jesus tells the story of a dishonest manager, a shrewd man who knows how to work the angles and save his own skin. But the punchline isn’t just a warning about corruption. It’s a warning about divided loyalty. You cannot serve both God and money. The word “serve”…