Oh, woe is me!
It seems we can never measure up. We aren’t as talented as our friends, have less money than anyone else, and never, never get the really good breaks in life.
It’s not our fault if we can’t be a super-Christian and win the world for Christ.
Is it?
Jesus told the story of a rich man with three servants. The man goes away on a trip and entrusts each servant with a portion of his wealth. He only asks one thing, for them to be responsible with the part he’s entrusted to them. We can read Jesus’ words in Matthew 25:14-30:
For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.
Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, “Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.”
His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.”
And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, “Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.”
His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.”
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.”
God doesn’t expect us to be super-Christians. He wants us to be super enthused for his work; to be at church early; to volunteer for the nursery class; to participate in small groups; to bake a cake for the youth fund; to jump in; to be involved; to make the church better that we might draw others in to learn of the goodness of the Lord.
What has God entrusted to us? Our children? A regular paycheck? A comfortable home? A position in the community? Our health? Whatever it is, he expects us to use it to further his kingdom in whatever way we can.
When we offer God what we have, he expands it until it becomes more than we ever thought possible.
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