14 Imagine someone who, before going abroad, summoned his servants to entrust his property to them. 15 He gave five talents of silver to one servant, two talents to another servant, and one talent to a third, to each, according to his ability; and he went away.
---- my own,
Do you recognise and acknowledge the talents that I have given you? Have you taken the time to think, reflect, and note all the gifts that you have been given from the moment of your conception? Have you ever seriously considered how you have used the gifts given to you fruitfully, or have you ignored them, squandered them, or are you completely unaware of My magnanimity to you? Have I given you five talents, two, one? Have you used them and have they grown and flourished as you used them extensively, and have they made your life and the lives you have shared them with more fruitful, meaningful, and joyful? Have you grown in your love for Me and in your confidence that I alone AM the Giver of every good and perfect gift? I gave Solomon what he asked for and so much more than he could dream of. He began well but ended badly. What about you? Have you consistently used what I have blessed you with to bless the lives of those around you? The day of reckoning will come, and when it does, I will demand a strict account of your stewardship. Remember this well and use the time you have left to increase and multiply what has been entrusted to you for the glory of God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Live in the present, do not spend time worrying over the past, which is but vain regret, or the future over which you have neither knowledge nor control, but spend yourself now for others while there is yet time.
