November 15, 2021
What Are You Doing with What
I Have Entrusted to You?
Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth. (Luke 10:4 NIV)
My precious child you have been given gifts, talents, some education, a family, a story and time what are you doing with what I have entrusted you? There was a man going off on an extended trip. He called his employees together and delegated responsibilities. To one he gave five thousand dollars, to another two thousand, to a third one thousand, depending on their abilities. Then he left. Right off, the first employee went to work and doubled his boss’s investment. The second did the same. But the man with the single thousand dug a hole and carefully buried his master’s money.” (Proverbs 10:26, Proverbs 21:25-26)
After a long absence, the master of those three servants came back to settle with them. The one given five thousand dollars showed him how he had doubled his investment. His boss commended him: ‘Good work! You did your job well. From now on be my partner.’ “The servant with the two thousand showed how he also had doubled his master’s investment – to double what he had been given was worth about twenty years of wages. His master commended him: ‘Good work! You did your job well. From now on be my partner.’ “The servant or employee given one thousand said, ‘Master, I know you have high standards and hate careless ways, that you demand the best and make no allowances for error. I was afraid I might disappoint you, so I found a good hiding place and secured your money. (Luke 10:4) Here it is, safe and sound down to the last cent.’ He immediately began pointing fingers at his boss and blaming him because he had done nothing with what he was given. “The master was furious. ‘That’s a terrible way to live! It’s criminal to live cautiously like that! If you knew I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? The least you could have done would have been to invest the sum with the bankers, where at least I would have gotten a little interest.’ Take the thousand and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this “play-it-safe” who won’t go out on a limb. Throw him out into utter darkness.’
The third man was afraid and consumed with the ‘what’s in it for me’ syndrome and blamed others for his failures rather than taking responsibility for his own decisions. (Matthew 25:14-30) Fear is a spirit! (2 Timothy 1:7) Fear will stop you in your tracks but you have the power to take authority over it and move forward. Don’t compare yourself to others. Stop looking at what you have or don’t have! I have given you gifts and talents that make you completely different from anyone else on the face of this earth. (Galatians 6:7-9) I have a plan for you and no one else can do what I have appointed you to do. (Jeremiah 29:11-13) It’s not important your size, where you grew up, and the family you grew up in or how much you had, or you didn’t have. Celebrate what I have given others and leverage what I have entrusted to you. What are you doing with what I entrusted to you? (Luke 6:38)
