'The one-talented man
The one-talented man
"Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'
"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant!" Matthew 25:24-26
Our humility serves us falsely, when it leads us to shrink from any duty.
The plea of unfitness or inability — is utterly insufficient to excuse us. It is too startlingly like that offered by the one-talented man in the parable, whose gift was so small that there seemed no use in trying to employ it.
The shocking light that the sequel to his story flashes upon us, should arouse us to read the meaning of personal responsibility, and to hasten to employ every shred of a gift that God has bestowed upon us!
"Throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!" Matthew 25:26, 30