Greetings to you, dear readers of “Daily Word for Spiritual Edification”! God is faithful to His Word. Because of His boundless love towards us, He is faithful to us. And He also looks for faithfulness in us.
«..when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith (faithfulness) on the earth?» (Luke, 18:8).
Do not compare yourself with other people, but always check whether you are faithful to God. Are you faithful to God in the area of being a good steward of the resources God has entrusted to you?Jesus’ parable of the talents says that after the lord returned and settled accounts with his first two servants who had multiplied their talents, he did not just praise them for their faithfulness; he also blessed and promoted them: «…you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things».Equal blessings were given to the servant who gained five more talents and to the one who gained two more.God is in the rewarding business! Reward awaits everyone who serves the Lord in patience and faithfulness. Faithfulness leads to promotion.How did the third servant behave? He began making excuses.«…Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours» (Mathew, 25:24-25).
After listening to him, the master publicly condemned him.«But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest…» (Mathew, 25:26-27).
The master revealed the true nature of this man: he was wicked and lazy.If this servant truly feared the lord and considered him to be a hard man, then his actions would have been totally different; he would have used his talents. But the problem was that this servant was a lazy and deceitful person. He was just making excuses and trying to get away. He was looking for a ‘scapegoat’. His master saw the true cause of the bareness of this servant: it was deceitfulness and laziness.When the Lord returns, there won’t be a way out: no excuses, no cunningness, nothing else will help us to get away. The Lord won’t listen to you trying to blame someone else. We cannot deceive God because He knows and sees everything.God has not entrusted each one of us with talents so that we would hide them; He wants us to use and multiply them.It is better to be a diligent and faithful servant of God than to waste your life being deceitful and lazy. The day will come for each one of us when we will stand before our Lord Jesus Christ and give an account for the life we have lived. Every day we have an opportunity to get ready to meet the Lord. Every day we meet people whom we can help and minister to. It is your choice. You are the one that can decide how to spend your life.Jesus brought life wherever He went. You can do the same, because Jesus lives inside of you.I wish you God’s abundant blessings that you will be able to share with those who need those blessings!Pastor Rufus Ajiboy
