Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. The prompt this week is … Talent.
The verse and parable comes to mind immediately upon reading the word prompt.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.” (Matthew 25: 14-15, NKJV)
“Talent” has been defined as “a special natural ability or aptitude” (dictionary.com). We have each been entrusted with a talent, or two. Some have several talents, some have one. Some talents are visible to many, and some are hidden only to be seen by God.
God has dispersed these talents by His wisdom and grace, not wanting to overburden or overwhelm any of us. He knows just how much we are able to do and gives us only what we are able to handle.
With those talents, God will give to each of us opportunities to use them over the course of our lives; for what we do with these abilities is our gift back to Him.
“Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.” (George Vaillant)
Talents and abilities – the precious gifts we give back to God.
May we use them wisely.
Thank you so much for sharing, Joanne! We wrote about similar themes, with the same passage in Scripture! I love that. I like how you said God gives us just enough talent because He doesn’t want to overburden us. He truly is a good Father 🙂 God bless!
May we steward them well. xo
Thank you for the encouragment 🙂 from a fellow fmfer
The lives we lead upon this earth
are merely ours on loan,
and we have been aimed from birth
to give accounting ‘fore the Throne
for what we’ve made of the gifts
that by His grace, we’re given;
did we unite, did we cause rifts,
were we calm, or were we driven
to aspirations of the flesh,
and not the kingdom-dreams;
to the store and not the creche,
when we’d forgotten what it means?
For the greatest gift that God bestows
is the desire to hold Him close.
I love the concept of giving our talents BACK to God!
More than just a couple of us were drawn to the same parable today!! I love it! Such a powerful passage – and just as many lessons learned each time we read it.
This is one of my favorite verses as a writer. Thank you for sharing and for linking up with Grace and Truth this week
May I use my talents well and share them with others.