Good morning and welcome to our daily walk!
This week's devotionals are by Justin Morton.
Audio version at http://tinyurl.com/2272ra
This week we have been looking at different servants of God and seeing what their lives and examples mean for us. As we have seen, God is calling us all to be faithful servants. No matter our age, background, past or ignorance, God wants you to be a servant. This morning I want us to focus on our talents. The more we use our talents, the better the servant we will be.
God has blessed us all in more ways than we can count. We all enjoy a measure of blessings both physical and spiritual. All people have talents even though some have more than others. As servants of God we must use these talents and abilities for the good of the Lord and His kingdom.
Jesus reminds us of this in the parable of the Talents in Matthew 25. There Jesus tells about how a man who was about to go on a journey and left his slaves in charge of his possessions. He gave one man five talents, another two talents, and another one talent. The one who received five talents went out and double his talents and had ten talents. The one with two talents went out and gained two more. However, the one who had received one talent went and dug a hole in the ground and buried his talent.
When the master returned he found that the men whom he entrusted five talents and two talents went out and double their portions. He responded to them by saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master” (Matt. 25:21, 23).
When the master found that the one talent man went and hid his talent he said, “You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest” (Matt. 25:26-27).
The first two slaves took the talents their master gave them and put them to use and ended up getting more talents. The slave with one talent took what he had and didn’t put it to use. This made the master unhappy when he returned home. The reason was because the salve did absolutely nothing! He hid his talent and didn’t use it.
Folks, it profits us nothing if we take the talents we have and do nothing with them. God expects us to take what He has given to us and put it to use. It doesn’t matter if we have five talents or one; the end result is the same…put your talents to use for the good of the kingdom and great things will happen.
You may be thinking, “I don’t really have a talent that I can use to be a servant of God.” The truth of the matter is, you have several talents that you can use to be a servant for God. Think of all the things that you are able to do. Take those things and put them to use as a servant for God.
We are all blessed with talents that we are able to use as servants of God. Whether it’s teaching, leading, encouraging, comforting, etc., we must take the talents God has given us and use them as His servants. Don’t be like the man who took his one talent and buried it. Instead, be like the men with five talents and two talents who took what they had and gained more. That’s what true servants of God do. They use what God has blessed them with.
Thought of the Day: “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” - Henry Van Dyke
May God bless you in your daily walk!
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