😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. Driving home from Adoration Monday evening, my mind wandered to meeting people and things you ask, to get to know them. You know, ice breaker kind of questions. One question that crossed my mind was, “What are your hidden talents?” I started thinking, “What talents do I have that most people that know me, don’t know about?”
My mind then drifted to the Parable of the Talents, Matthew 25:14-30. Verse 18 states, “But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.”
We continue to hear about the servant who received one talent in verses 24-30, “He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”
You and I were made and fashioned by God, with His talents built into our unique DNA. Each and every talent that God chose for you and me, was chosen by God, specifically for you and for me. God gives us these gifts to do great things for Him and to prosper in His presence. I have come to believe that a gift isn’t fully given, until it’s fully received.
Take a moment to think about the talents God gave to you. What talents have you hidden from God and the rest of humanity? I know I certainly have more than one. But the question is, “What am I going to do, to bring those buried talents to the surface and make them known, for the glory of God?” Some of our talents have been buried so long, we’ll have a hard time even remembering them. Dig deep and not just in one place. But before you start digging, have a conversation with God. He’ll lead you back to the talents He gave you and where you buried them. He would much rather see you use them, than take them away and give them to someone else.
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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