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Buried Talents Should Be Used, March 9
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your
speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you
ought to answer each one.
Colossians 4:5, 6
, NKJV.
Seek conversion of body, soul, and spirit. Unfold your napkin, and begin to
trade with your Lord’s goods. In so doing, you will gain other talents. Every soul
entrusted with talents is to use them to benefit others. Who in the great day of
final reckoning will say, “I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo,
there thou hast that is thine”? To such the Lord will say, “Thou wicked and slothful
servant ...: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and
then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.”
The Lord is still calling those who are apparently blind to their deficiencies, the
self-complacent ones, who plan and devise how they can best serve themselves.
God help the spiritually blind to see that there is a world to be saved. The truth is to
be made manifest to those who know it not, and this work calls for the self-denying
grace of Christ.
Thousands who are now of no use in God’s cause should be digging up their
buried talents, and putting them out to the exchangers. Those who think that they
will surely reach heaven while they follow their own ways and imaginations might
better break the seal, and reexamine their title to the treasures of heaven. The men
and women who feel at ease in Zion might better become anxious about themselves,
and inquire: What am I doing in the Lord’s vineyard? Why am I not yoked up with
Christ, a laborer together with God? Why am I not learning in Christ’s school His
meekness and lowliness of heart? Why have I no burdens to bear in the service of
Christ? Why am I not a decided Christian, employing all my powers in laboring for
the salvation of the souls who are perishing around me? Saith not the Word, “We
are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building”?
Shall I not with God’s help build a character for time and eternity, and promote
godliness in myself and in others through the sanctification of the truth?—
The
Review and Herald, August 21, 1900
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