How are you improving your community? Are you supporting your local church? Are you using your blessings from God to spread his message to others? Are you using your gifts to serve others in your community? Are you being a good representative of Jesus every day?
In Jesus’s parable of the property owner, his servants, and distributing resources, we see two of the servants have done well. They doubled the money the master had given them responsibility for. The third servant hid the money in a safe place so he could return it to the master.
This parable is not simply about money. It is about the gifts God blesses us with and what we do with them. It may be money. It may be a specific talent or skill, such as being a musician, organizational skills, leadership, preaching, teaching, or serving. Regardless of what we have been blessed with, we are to use it to work alongside God to expand his kingdom. God blesses us for his own purposes. We have a choice to use our blessings for him or for our own personal gain. Those who use them for God’s purposes will be given more, while those who do not will have theirs taken away.
This is not a prosperity gospel. It is about being vigilant in using our blessings to bless others and expanding God’s kingdom. We do not know when Jesus will return or when we will be called home to be with Him. Therefore, we are to use our time wisely, continuing to work for God’s kingdom. Jesus knows if and how we are using the blessings He has given us.
I pray we all know we have been blessed. I pray we use our blessings to improve our communities. I pray each one of us are vigilant in working to expand God’s kingdom and representing Jesus. You have been blessed. Use your blessings for others. Use your blessings for God. Represent Jesus well.
Matthew 25:19-21 “After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things; I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’”
