Throw that worthless

Throw that worthless servant outside!

" Throw that worthless servant outside , into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!" Matthew 25:30

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 which the sequel to his story flashes upon us, should arouse us to take our personal responsibility seriously, and to hasten to employ every shred of a gift which God has bestowed upon us.

God does not bestow His blessings where they will be hoarded or used selfishly. He loves to put His very best gifts, into the hands of those who will not store them away in barns, or fold them up in napkins and hide them away. He puts songs into the hearts of those who will sing them out again.

This is the secret of that promise, "For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance," and of that other little understood, little believed word of Christ, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Heaven's blessing comes, not upon the receiving — but upon the dispensing .

Men are good and great before God, not as they gather into their hands and hearts the abundant gifts of God, whether temporal or spiritual — but as their gathering augments their usefulness, and makes them greater blessings to others.

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