One of my favorite parables in the Bible is the Parable of the Talents (Matt 25:14).
Some of you may be thinking huh, what, and why, right about now, but the truth is that every time I hear this parable, (which is normally during offering) I take a different look at it (which I am sure a lot of you do too).
This story always makes me check myself and the skills (talents) that God has blessed me with. Now sadly, I wasn’t given a silver tongue and my writing abilities, well you know, speak for themselves. But I do believe that God blessed me with the abilities that I do have and this parable always checks me and brings me back to a single thought.
- Am I using my talent more for myself or for God.
This thought is what made me want nothing more then to get www.jokesandjesus.com off the ground, but sadly I haven’t been giving it the attention that it deserves lately. And it’s not that I still haven’t been using my talents for God, but I do feel like I can be doing more. And I don’t know about you, but I think God deserves every bit of the best that I can give him.
So my question to you is:
Are you just hiding your talents or are you using them and allowing them to grow, so that you can serve God even more through them?