You cannot multiply what you do not sow

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 3 minutes

Welcome, dear readers, to „Daily Word for Spiritual Edification”! According to the wonderful mercy of God we have been given this chance to daily feed our hearts on the living Word of God. God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him! The light of God’s Word enlightens us and gives wisdom.

We are still talking about necessity to use the gifts that have been given to us by the Lord. Jesus wants every person to be faithful in little things and then God will place such a person over greater things. God presents everyone with opportunities to start serving Him and bringing forth fruit for God’s Kingdom. You cannot multiply what you do not sow.

In the Gospel of Mathew Jesus told a parable about Master giving his servants different talents. «For the kingdom of heaven is like a man travelling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered goods to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey» (Mathew, 25: 14-15).

Jesus shows us here that the criterion of His assessment is not quantity, but faithfulness. God know that every one of us has different abilities, so the quantitative result will be different for different people. Numbers are not important to Jesus; He cares about how faithful you have been with what God has given you. He cares about your attitude towards His work.

So very often people compare their results and assess each other by quantity and numbers; Jesus judges by different criteria: by the attitude of one’s heart and the quality of work.

In the Scripture above we see different attitude that people show towards God’s assignments: «Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money» (Mathew, 25: 16-18)

Every person in this parable received something to start his ministry with; but we see that one of them was negligent with his talent. This servant was irresponsible and lazy; his master pointed that out later on: «But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant» (Mathew, 25: 26a).

Most of the time it is laziness, negligence and irresponsibility that make people unfruitful, and not the lack of knowledge of God’s will. So often people do not know their place in the Body of Christ or their ministry simply because they are lazy, wicked and irresponsible! Do not be offended, because the Lord Himself said so! A patient should not get offended when his doctor tells him about the critical condition of his health.

When our heart attitude is right and when we do everything we can then we will have fruit. You can pray for hours and hours; but if you won’t get up, start doing something with what you have you will have no ministry, nor place, nor fruit in the Kingdom of God. Only the one who uses his gifts and talents have fruit.

May God abundantly bless you today and in future!

God is good!

Pastor Rufus Ajiboye

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