Isn't this what happened to us on the Cross?

Scripture: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9  •  Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113  •  1 Timothy 2:1-7  •  Luke 16:1-13

What a parable we have to study this week! The parable of the dishonest manager. This follows Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son. What are we to make of the parable of the manager, who, caught with his  hand in the cookie jar, then "cooks the books," slashing debts owed to his master. And what does his master do!? He commended his manager because he acted shrewdly! In both parables we have someone who is trusted with another's possessions and squanders them or gives them away. What does that say about the manager? The master?

Of course Jesus has some other things to say, such as we cannot serve two masters, God and Mammon (wealth), and about faith, trust and generosity.  Consider the perspectives of Nancy Rockwell in "God and Mammon" from her Blog, "A Bite of the Apple," and The Rev. Rick Morley's "squandering right - a reflection on Luke 16:1-13."

What do you think about this parable? What do you take away from it? Isn't this what happened to us on the Cross?