“Invest this until I get back.” (Luke 19:13)
Everything we have, we have as a gift from a generous God.
Everything that has come to us has come to us at little cost compared with the
cost of our redemption. Nothing belongs to us because we cannot hold onto it
forever. If many of us traced our ancestry back, we would find that we are the
direct relatives of fabulously wealthy men and women. How many of us have
anything to show for it?
Our talents are given us, lent to us for our time on Earth
to be used for His glory. They are not ours because they will be translated
when we are no longer here. But we are expected to use them and to produce
more. We are expected to invest them and return a harvest of souls bound for salvation.
One of the great tragedies of humankind would be not to use these wonderful
gifts in the proper way.
Gifts that are used increase—they do so naturally, like
exercising a muscle, as they increase, our capacity to use them increases. Soon
we find ourselves in places we never expected—the Lord keeps giving us more and
more, knowing that someday we'll stop relying on ourselves and start relying on
Him.
So, as we go about our daily chores and our daily
activities, we need to think about how we can use the gift of cooking, or
cleaning, or writing, or listening, or whatever we may be blessed by and to
consider carefully how we might best offer it back to God through loving our
neighbor.
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