Matthew 25:14-30 – The Talents
All professing Christians have received something from God. We are all God’s “servants.” We have “talents” entrusted to us. Anything whereby we may glorify God is a talent. Our gifts, our influence, our money, our knowledge, our health, our strength, our time, our senses, our reason, our intellect, our memory, our affections, our privileges as members of Christ’s Church, our advantages as possessors of the Bible – all are talents.
Many make a bad use of the privileges and mercies they receive from God. To hide our talent is to neglect opportunities of glorifying God, when we have them. It is to have light that we do not use, to rob God daily. It is to make no return of all that God has lent us.
All professing Christians must one day have a reckoning with God. There will be no escape. We and God must at last meet face to face. We shall have to give an account of every privilege that was granted to us, and of every ray of light that we enjoyed.
The least and lowest of believers will find that he is counted among Christ’s servants, and that his labour has not been in vain in the Lord. He will discover to his amazement, that his Master’s eye saw more beauty in his efforts to please Him, than he ever saw himself. He will find that every hour spent in Christ’s service, and every word spoken on Christ’s behalf, has been written in a book of remembrance.
Thousands are living at this day without Christ, and yet all this time they know in their own conscience that they are guilty. They are burying their talent. They are not doing what they can. We are not told that the unprofitable servant was a murderer, or a thief, or even a waster of his Lord’s money. But he did nothing – and this was his ruin.
Questions
- What are talents?
- How do we hide talents?
Prayer Points
- Pray that you would use what God has given you to glorify Him.
- Use prayer points from your congregation.
- Pray for family matters.