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Use Even One Talent Wisely, March 11
“I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you
have what is yours.” But his Lord answered and said to him, “You wicked
and lazy servant.... You ought to have deposited my money with the bankers,
and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.”
Matthew 25:25-27
, NKJV.
None should mourn that they have not larger talents. When they use to the
glory of God the talents He has given them, they will improve. It is no time now to
bemoan our position in life, and excuse our neglect to improve our abilities because
we have not another’s ability and position, saying, Oh, if I had his or her gift and
ability, I might invest a large capital for my Master. If such persons use their one
talent wisely and well, that is all the Master requires of them.
Look into our churches. There are only a few real workers in them. The majority
are irresponsible men and women. They feel no burden for souls. They manifest
no hungering and thirsting for righteousness. They never lift when the work goes
hard. These are the ones who have but one talent, and hide that one in a napkin, and
bury it in the world; that is, they use all the influence they have in their temporal
matters. In seeking the things of this life, they lose the future, eternal life, the far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. What can be said and done to arouse
this class of church members to feel their accountability to God? Must the mass
of professed Christian commandment keepers hear the fearful words “Cast ye the
unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth”?
Every man and woman and child should be a worker for God. Where there is
now one who feels the burden of souls there should be one hundred. What can we
do to arouse the people to improve what influence and means they already have
to the glory of the Master? Let those who have one talent use that well, and in so
doing they will find it doubled. God will accept “according to that a man hath, and
not according to that he hath not.”—
The Review and Herald, March 14, 1878
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