After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. — Matthew 25:19
I remember a few years ago that a company I worked for wanted to focus on career development. We were all asked to look at our current jobs and consider our skills and our long-term goals. The idea was that the company could help us identify talents and finds ways to continue to develop our skills.
As we went through the exercise, we learned a lot about the different viewpoints of everyone. For example, some people had the characteristics of a leader seeing a big vision. Others were more doers. They could see the small details and spot problems that were going to happen from a distance. What was more impressive was how we all fit into the plan of the organization together.
Each person had a place and a purpose. I couldn’t leave my place and purpose to focus on someone else’s purpose. Sure, I may be able to help, but I could not fill that spot exactly as they did. We all had something to contribute, and we all had to be in our place.
It’s the same for us in our spiritual lives. We all have a place and purpose in the plan of God. God has given us our skills and talents to use for Him, but are we? It takes each of us to be in our place, using our skills and talents for God’s purpose. That’s what God designed us for!
Just as the servants had a reckoning with their master regarding their talents, so will we. One day, we will stand before God for how we used our talents and filled our purpose for Him. Our desire should be to hear Him say “well done” in how we have served Him. If that were to happen today, what would you hear Him say? Today, commit your all to God. Use your talents for Him and serve Him so that you will hear Him say, “well done.”
Jared Dyson
My talents are modest, but i hope he knows I tried my best to use them to His glory. I am, at best, a healer. At worst a person who uses that as a livlihood, to support myself and home. I do service for others, but I also get paid for some of it, so it is not as selfless as some think it is. I know he is aware of my struggles and weariness, but I sincerely try to not blame anyone, I refuse to be a victim. I know He knows my sins, and there are times I chose the wrong thing to do in circumstances in my life, and hopefully those are all in my past. I have confessed my sins to Him with true remorse, because every single time I became willful in my life, wanting someone or an outcome to go my way, I was brought to my knees. I can only say, at those times, I received mercy in the form of enlightenment He has given me all, all times I used my hands to comfort someone, feed them, bathe them, grow food for them, heal a wound or ministered to the ill, those were His hands, not mine. I also know that there is no cancelling out of sin, my good works do not erase what I have done that was bad for my soul, and I am willing to bear the guilt and receive the consequences, which may be Purgatory, it may be karmic and yet to come. I just live and serve at this point, I wish I had lived my entire life to this purpose, but I have not. I have needed to care for people and animals and the plot of earth I exist on, if I did not have these, there would be no purpose to keep me being good, so , while it may appear that I am a good doer, those things that I do benefit me, it is full circle, one cannot exist without the other. If we I did live in a perfect world, there would be no use for me, I am well aware of that. I serve no purpose in Heaven, just another voice in the choir, but while I walk in the world, I have purpose. Such a conundrum! "On Earth as it is in Heaven". The hardest part is not the toil for my daily bread, the hardest part is forgiving as I wish to be forgiven, I hope to attain that before I die, so that I can please my Lord. I want God to know I am trying.
...we are what we are but by the grace of God....