The Unrighteous Steward

When Julius Caesar descended from his ship to begin his conquest in North Africa, he made what could have been one of the greatest errors of the campaign—he stumbled on the plank and fell to the ground. As his armies were assembled on shore to greet their general, Caesar's stumbling would have been interpreted as a bad omen. Immediately, rumors would begin. Hearts would sink. And Caesar's army would have been defeated before they began. Knowing this, Caesar did what only he could do. As he fell off the plank to the ground, he shouted with a voice that all his troops could hear, "Africa, I greet thee!" And the corporate gasp of his troops turned into a shout of victory!

We love stories like this, don't we? We love stories where people take the ordinary and transform it into the extraordinary. We like people to take a losing situation and work it into success. That is perhaps why Christ used this very theme to exhort His disciples unto faithfulness.

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