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He Multiplies My Talents, April 19
Improving My Talents
Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful
over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter
thou into the joy of thy lord.
Matthew 25:21
God has given us talents to use for Him. To one He gives five talents,
to another two, and to another one. Let not him who has but one talent
think to hide it from God. The Lord knows where it is hidden. He knows
that it is doing nothing for Him. When the Lord comes, He will ask His
servants, What have you done with the talents I entrusted to you? And
as he who received five and he who received two tell Him that by trading
they have doubled their talents, He will say to them, “Well done, good
and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things.... Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
Thus He will say also to him who has improved the one talent lent him....
To him who has but one talent I would say, Do you know that one
talent, rightly used and improved, will bring to the Lord one hundred
talents? How? you ask. Use your gift in the conversion of one man of
intellect, who sees what God is to him, and what he should be to God.
Let him place himself on the side of the Lord, and as he imparts the light
to others, he will be the means of bringing many souls to the Saviour.
Through the right use of one talent one hundred souls may receive the
truth. It is not to those who have the greatest number of talents to whom
the “Well done” is spoken, but to those who in sincerity and faithfulness
have used their gifts for the Master....
There is a great work to be done in our world, and we are accountable
for every ray of light that shines upon our pathway. Impart that light,
and you will receive more light to impart. Great blessing will come to
those who use their talents aright.
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