Thursday night Ohana group discussion was on stewardship of time, money, gifts and was grounded in Matthew chapter 25 verses 14-30. We talked about this passage and what it meant regarding money and talents (gifts that God had given us).
But there is something that wasn’t mentioned and that was the Master and his character in this parable. The master, as it says in verse 14 called his servants and entrusted his property to them. In other words the master trusted these servants.
So if we look at it a little differently we see this man was full of kindness, wisdom and was respected. We also see him as someone who didn’t ask these servants to do anything with the money he gave them. Yet two of them did and one didn’t.
As I continued to think about this I thought about the parallel of this man and Jesus. I thought how this man trusted his servants and that Jesus freely gives us the gift of salvation, He trusts us to take that gift and tell others about him.
Why then, is it so hard for us to trust Him with the things in our life? Have we become the servant in this parable that is afraid of sharing, afraid of investing our time or even afraid of speaking God’s truth?
2Timothy 2:15 tells us,
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
Have a good week and remember to look up!
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