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# The Unfaithful Manager
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/the-unfaithful-manager/
- Published: 2025-11-07T17:58:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T01:04:44.000Z
- Description: This brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.” (Lk 15:32)
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-o-administrador-infiel

## **🕊️ The Unfaithful Manager**

## **1\. The love that restores: Luke 15**

Jesus closes the parable of the prodigal son with a sentence that sums up the whole Gospel:

> “This brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.” ([Lk 15:32](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/lc/15/32?ref=amemamem.com.br))

What was dead was not the body, but the communion;  
and what was found was not the address, but the **awareness**.  
The son, who had asked for his inheritance and squandered it, **comes to himself**,   
and in that moment the process of conversion begins.

There, the Spirit awakens him,  
and he gets up, goes back and is received by the Father.  
For grace wraps around him, forgiveness rebuilds him,  
and love restores him to the house.

But Jesus does not stop there: He goes on, turning the gaze from repentance to wisdom.

## 2\. **The wisdom that manages: Luke 16**

Right after, Jesus tells another parable:

> “There was a rich man who had a manager, and he was accused of wasting his possessions.” ([Lk 16:1](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/lc/16/1?ref=amemamem.com.br))

Again the verb **“to waste”** appears.  
The same heart, in another context.  
While the prodigal son wastes out of ignorance and returns repentant,  
the manager wastes out of carelessness and must act with discernment.

Both face a crisis,  
but one returns to communion, and the other awakens to **responsibility**.  
And in both there is the same spiritual turning point:  
the moment they **come to themselves**, when conscience opens and the Spirit reconnects them to the truth.

The prodigal son “comes to himself” and returns to the Father.  
The manager “comes to himself” and acts wisely in the time he has left.  
One is moved by grace; the other, by an awakened conscience.  
But both meet again the same Spirit,  
the One who gives life, discernment and direction.

## 3\. **The crucified man who also came to himself**

On the cross, between two men equally condemned,  
one of them also **comes to himself**.  
While the other keeps mocking, he acknowledges:

> “We are being punished justly, for we are receiving what our deeds deserve.  
> But this man has done nothing wrong.” ([Lk 23:41](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/lc/23/41?ref=amemamem.com.br))

In that instant, conscience awakens  
because the same light of the Spirit that touched the prodigal son and the unfaithful manager  
now shines in a dying heart.  
And he says:

> “Jesus, remember me when you enter your Kingdom.” ([Lk 23:42](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/lc/23/42?ref=amemamem.com.br))

It is the last “coming to himself” in the Gospel,  
conversion in its purest form.  
No works, no promises, no time to change,  
only **a heart that awakens and recognizes the truth**.

And Jesus answers:

> “Today you will be with me in paradise.” ([Lk 23:43](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/lc/23/43?ref=amemamem.com.br))

There, everything is fulfilled:  
the grace that saves the lost,  
the wisdom that awakens conscience,  
and the love that receives and reconciles.

The man who wasted his life  
and had no time to manage anything  
was, even so, **found by the presence**.

Because the true encounter with God  
happens in the instant when a man **comes to himself**,   
and, in that very moment, discovers that the Spirit  
**was always there, waiting for him**.

## 🌿 **Three encounters, one presence**

One before the **love of the Father**,  
another before the **Lord**,  
and another before the **Son**.

The prodigal son is welcomed by the **love of the Father**.  
The unfaithful manager is taught by the **wisdom of the Spirit**.  
The repentant crucified man is saved by the **grace of the Son**.

> **The grace of the Son, the love of God and the communion of the Spirit.**

It is in this divine flow that man is restored, awakened and received.  
The whole journey, from repentance to wisdom, and from wisdom to surrender,  
happens within the fullness of this love,  
which is the very presence of God in us.