Date: Tuesday, 16th July, 2024
Text: Matthew 25:14–30
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
The “Parable of the Talents” in today’s text, tells of a master who was leaving his house to travel, and, before leaving, entrusted his property to his servants. According to the abilities of each man, one servant received five talents, the second had received two, and the third received only one. Then the master went on his journey.
By the time he returned, he called his servants to give accounts of their stewardship. The one with five talents had put them to work and gained five more; the one given two had gained two more and their master commended them handsomely.
However, the servant with the least ability could not multiply his talent. He went and dug the ground and hid it there. While the others worked with their talents, he idled away engaging himself with unprofitable things.
When the unproductive servant was called to give account of his stewardship, he began to fault his master and gave excuses typical of indolent folks. Instead of accepting the blame, he accused his master of being, “a hard man, harvesting where he had not sown and gathering where he had not scattered seed.” Matthew 25:24-25
His master replied by describing him as a “wicked, lazy and worthless servant”, got him arrested and thrown to jail. His master said he could have kept the money in the bank to yield some interest instead of hiding it in the ground.
The talent was taken from him and given to the man with ten talents because “whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” Matthew 25:29
Reflective nugget: Laziness is a sin.