Are you living up to the potential of your divine talents?

Remember the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30? In this parable, the master gives his servants talents as he prepares to go on a journey.

He gives five talents to one, two to another, and one to the last servant. The Bible says, he gave "to each according to his ability."

Today, we focusing on how these servants treated their talents . The one with the most traded with them, and made five talents more. The one with two did the same.

However, the one with the least did differently, the Bible tells us that he "dug in the ground and hid his master's money."

Before we go any further, ask yourself which servant are you? Are you living up to your full potential of your talents?

God has given all of us talents, according to our abilities. Unfortunately, we do not always use them, if we try using them we are okay with doing averagely, rather than living up to our full potential.

Also, we spend so much time complaining about what we do not have or being envious of others that appear to have more than we do when we could be using that time to live up to our full potential.

Let's go back to how the master treated his servants when he returned from his trip. Let's start with how the servants who used their talents were treated.

Verse 19-23 says, "Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master."

Moving on to the servant that did not use his talent.

Verse 24-30 says, "He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The Bible calls people who do not use their gifts 'wicked and slothful,' which is another word for lazy.

Also, these group of people are cast into the darkness, "in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

In order to avoid being called wicked and cast away, let us take some time to examine our lives.

First, ask God to show you what your gifts are. I truly believe that He speaks to us, nudging us into the direction that we should take, so let us ask Him what He has put in us and how we can live up to it (1 Peter 4:10-11.)

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I also believe that we were not put on earth to live for ourselves, we were put here to show others the God in us, to remind others of the good in humanity (Romans 12:6-8.)

So, not living up to your potential does not only affect you, it affects the lives of the many people that you were supposed to touch (Matthew 5:48.)

I pray that God will show what He has put in us and guide us on how to use it well.

This is the ninth article in the 'Things God Told Me to Tell You' series. The first was 'Love is the ONLY reason for our existence.'

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Are you living up to the potential of your divine talents?

I know the name of this column is Things God Told Me to Tell You, but todays article is asking a question, a question God encourages us to ask ourselves from time to time.

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