Continuation on the series 'The Misplaced'.
If you sit on what you have and what you have been giving and refuse to allow the world benefit from it, you are creating a gap; a wide gap. I think you have been given something to bring to this planet that only you can do the very way you have been designed to do it. There is something only you can initiate, perform and excel well in and if you do not concentrate on your value (coin) and build it up, you begin to sell yourself as ordinary silver. You begin to sabotage yourself if you do not work with what you have been given. Matthew 25:14-30 shows us that it is wrong to hide our "God-given talents" as it displeases Him. Everyone has special qualities they possess.
There is need for everyone to put their talents to use because of the diversity of areas in which performance are needed which may be spiritual, financial, intellectual, creativity, artistic, leadership, academically and so on. This talent is the skill that someone has that make it easy for him to naturally do something that is otherwise hard. It is an ability that someone is born with.
The content is deposited in the container as they are created and unless the container seal is open the content will remain unused. When you begin to use your talent, you begin to observe that it is a high degree of ability or of aptitude that is unrivalled with your peers. With talent, you are able to do something without trying as hard as someone who does not have that talent. There is nothing like putting your talent into use. In fact, success is only possible when talent is in use. Our talent is deposited in us to make it possible for us to walk with God before we can work for Him to fulfil the purpose He has created us for. We must learn that our talent must be put to use. This is what we are supposed to do while we await the return of our King. We are to use our talents to glorify God, impact the world, and advance God’s kingdom. To be successful, we must work diligently on earth using all the talents God has given us to produce the return expected by the Master. The talent we have is to be used here and now.
There is no need for our talents in Heaven.
It is to be used here or we will deprive generations of the blessings that the Lord has deposited in us. As simple as a four minute song can be, it could be what will encourage generations long after it is composed and released. A man who is putting his talent to use has no limitation in life. God has given us everything we need to succeed in what He has called us to do. It is hard to know the exact value of your talent; but when you put it to use, you will be wowed by the outcome. I am tempted to feel sorry for the servant who received only one talent who did not put it to use. Since the talent was shared according to ability (Matthew 25:15), it tells me that the man that received the one talent had the capacity of making ten more from one.
The parable showed the others having an additional increment BUT the one that had the multiplying effect of transforming his talent disdained it to the point of burying the one he was given.
No matter what we see our talents as, we must understand that we have been given enough to produce more; the number of talent does not count.
