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Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you. Psalm 143:8
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In the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30, Jesus talks about the man that was given just one talent. When his master returned, he discovered the man had taken the gift and hidden it. When pressed for an explanation as to why, the man explained that he believed the master who gave him the gift was a "hard man, one who took what he wanted when he wanted it." Of course, the master was no such man and couldn't understand how someone could be given a gift they didn't have to work for and then hide the gift from view and at the same time misrepresent the one who gave the gift.
In this parable, the "talents" literally represent money but the principle is true for whatever God gives us. Some will understand how gracious and extravagant the gift is and will take that gift they have received and invest it into others. This act of faithfulness in turn multiplies the gift. So every time you give away what God has gifted you with, it enlarges the gift you gave away in you.
There are some people today who have received the free gift of God's love and grace but because they don't have a revelation of who has given them the gift, they don't know how to invest it into others. In God's economy, "we freely receive and freely give." Those who live in fear of losing what they were freely given, don't know the giver of the gift. They believe he is a harsh and angry man and being only concerned about themselves, they don't invest the gift that is designed to be invested or given away, and instead they bury and hide their gift where it doesn't benefit anyone. The man who hid his free gift was called wicked and unfaithful.
There is a lost and hurting world who is in desperate need to know about a gift that is free from God called salvation. To hide this gift or to misrepresent the One who is giving the gift as "hard" is truly a wicked thing. Every gift God gives us is intended to be given away. This is the way God, through us, invests in people. You are blessed to be a blessing!
For it is by grace that you have been saved, though faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the GIFT of God-not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9
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