How trustworthy are you? Have you been entrusted with responsibilities in your job? Have those responsibilities increased over time? Do you believe you earned the increased responsibilities or were you given them based on your past performance and potential?
Most of us want to be identified as a trustworthy person. We may believe we can take on more responsibility. We all like to second guess others and often think we can do a better job or make smarter decisions. However, that does not mean we truly have the ability to do so.
Jesus tells a parable of a property owner who put his servants in charge of certain tasks and property while he went on a trip. Each of the servants were given different amounts of responsibility. We learn later in the parable that the property owner was a shrewd man. He was harsh when he needed to be harsh. He increased his wealth from some places where he had put no effort in. He was a businessman who knew how to expand his business and likely his influence. So, we can conclude that he evaluated the potential of his servants and doled out responsibility based on his assessment of each of them.
God gives each one of us specific abilities. He does so based on his knowing each of us better than we know ourselves. We are to gratefully accept God’s blessing and use the abilities he has given us for his purposes, which is to expand his kingdom here on earth. We are not to squander them nor ignore or hide them. We are to put them to use in God’s work.
I pray we all trust that God has given us abilities. I pray we accept God’s blessings with a grateful heart. I pray each one of us use our God-given abilities while working for God’s purposes. God has given you abilities. Gratefully accept God’s blessings. Use your abilities for God’s purposes.
Matthew 25:14-15 “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability.”
