“If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded  if someone should rise from the dead”( Lk  16:31).

God is good all the time.

Christian stewardship assumes that all resources are gifts to receive and share. Because everything we have is a gift from the creator, we must return them to him in worthy causes and sharing. 

The conclusion of today’s gospel reveals how the rich man practiced terrible stewardship. He never shared his acquired resources with the poor and waited till his death to return the precious gift of life to God; it was too late. 

The story's lesson is to see what happens to those who fail to attend to their gifts well. Jesus said, "I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings"( Lk 16:9). 

Good stewardship primarily is when we give our life to God while we live by obeying his commands and living for his glory  through our deeds of love towards God, the church, ourselves, and others. The teaching of Jesus today must reinforce our beliefs in heaven and good life, hell and suffering so that we ask for courage and grace to choose the good life and heaven.

If we can practice good stewardship, we must be willing to place our total trust in God as Jeremiah tells us. "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is the Lord. He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream. It fears not the heat when it comes; its leaves stay green. In the year of drought, it shows no distress but still bears fruit."