+ Our gospel passage today has to do with the investment of the
gifts that God entrusts to each of us.
Just
as God can distribute 10, 5 1 talents to whomever he wishes – and he expects us
to use them for his glory and to help other human beings who in the scheme of
things only we have been placed with them to do.
The passage shows how the ones
with the 10 and the 5 invested the money and brought forth even many more good
abilities and creative ways to give God glory and their neighbors the help they
needed. But the person with 1 – knowing the master expected a return on the
trust placed to him – wrongly concluded that the best thing to do was not to
lose the 1, but to carefully guard, protect and bury it until his master’s
return. The master was very angry at this report and he took the one and gave
it to the man with the 10 – and disparaged the carrier by saying: you could
have at least put the money in the bank so I could have interest on it. Then
Jesus concludes the lesson by saying that: everyone who has will be given more
(if it is rightly invested), but from the man who has not, even what he has
will be taken away. This is not harsh – it is just in the way God sees things,
which unfortunately 99% of the time is not the way man sees them.
Let us then be industrious and
prudent possessors of the many gifts that God gives us on behalf of others –
let us give until it hurts, and then give them some more! That’s what Jesus did
on the Cross – he gave it ALL – and won for us the forgiveness of our sins and
eternal life in a glorious new kingdom that awaits us all!
I
chose you from the world to go out and bear fruit, fruit that will last, says
the Lord!
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