Good? Wicked?

Good Morning,

Matthew 25:21 (NIV)
"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'"

(First, today, let me suggest that everyone read all of chapter 25 in Matthew some time today....Just because.)

"Well done, good and faithful servant!" I don't know about everyone who might read these words, but for me? Oh, yes! These are words that I want to hear. This is what I desire for the Lord, my Master, to say to me about what He has given me to do while on this earth. Don't you? I know that NONE of us want to hear the alternative of this, "You wicked, lazy servant!...Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." (vv 26,29)

So, what do you think God is asking you to be faithful in at this point in your life? Where is God asking you to put your "talents" (and we can interpret this in MANY ways!) on this planet?

Some of us, like the servants we read about in this chapter of Scripture, have been blessed with monetary "talents" that God has given them. Of course, those "talents" are to be invested in God's kingdom and work, and not kept for our own selfish desires and comforts. There are others of us who have a "talent" to teach, or perhaps to play music, or maybe visit in a nursing home or prison, or...well, there are innumerable "talents" that God has given and provided for us to work with and invest in some way. Here's the deal, though: Are we doing it? Will we hear, "Well done, Good and faithful servant!" or, conversely, will we hear those dreaded words, "You wicked and lazy servant!"...???

Now, the thing of it is, YOU can decide...right now...which you will hear at the end of your journey. And, maybe even before the end of your journey comes; maybe in the here and now, right on this earth. I can make that same decision, as well, and so can every person who has been blessed (that would be EVERY person alive!) by God with a particular "talent" to invest and put to work.

Good and faithful servant? Wicked, lazy servant?

Which would you rather hear? Which would you rather be?

Your choice.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David