Every day you and I, as believers in Jesus Christ, are confronted by things that require us to choose between two different worlds--that of the eternal Kingdom of God, and that of the world-environment in which we presently live. Those choices always revolve around one question: Is my character commanded by my Master, or by the mastery of the world whose games I can, with such ease, choose to play shrewdly?
In Luke 16, Jesus tells His disciples a story about an unjust steward whose master commends his crooked dealings by saying, "The sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light" (v. 8).
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