Written
by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
The parable of talents is illustrative of what
people who recognize the worth of their talents or divine gifts can do to
multiply and compound their talents or divine gifts to bless humanity and
themselves. The man who was given five talents multiplied the talents. So also
did the man who got two talents. But the wicked servant who received one talent
chose not to work his talent. Rather, he
buried the talent. He was therefore unproductive and not a blessing to himself,
family, humanity or even His master. Beloved, a one talent person is already
disadvantaged and therefore has no business burying the gift. Rather, s/he
should hone the gift and move on to other gifts. Yet the most dangerous thing
most one talent people do is to bury their gifts when in reality they should
develop five talent efforts so that they can match up with the people who have
five talents.
Five talent people and five talents efforts is God’s
preference. This because five talent people always make five talent efforts to
serve divine purpose and bless humanity. They are selfless people who live for
the common good. David was a five talent person. Mary the mother of Jesus
Christ was a five talent person. The prophetess Deborah was a five talent
person. She accompanied Barak to war and God gave Israel victory. She did what
she did for the common good. It was not about her. It was for Israel, the
people of God. Nehemiah was a five talent person. That explains why he rose
from the position of butler to governor of Jerusalem who blessed the people with
his personal resources. The little boy who brought lunch to the crusade, five
loaves of bread and two fishes was a five talent child. He blessed humanity
with his lunch pack. Jesus is a five talent person and I dare to say that you
are a five talent person.
The Biblical Joseph for instance was born a five
talent person but unfortunately was living with a one talent family and
probably attending a one talent school and taught by a one talent teacher; that
is if there were schools then. But somehow, God intervened in the affairs of
Joseph and organized him out of the one talent family and environment. Though
Joseph also ended up in a one talent family in Egypt, Potiphar’s wife’s sinful advances
to Joseph moved him out of a one talent house to prison, a two talent world
until Joseph’s eventual move to a five talent world, the palace.
Beloved, like Joseph, you can be a five talent
person stuck in a one talent community. However, you have the choice to move
out of it because life has a way of organizing events to move you out of a one
talent world. Therefore, make conscious and deliberate efforts to move to the
five talent world by getting five talent efforts to match the five talents
person you are. Otherwise, you will never know how divinely endowed you are;
and the fact that your divine endowments are to take you to great positions of
power, influence and wealth where you bless humanity.
You can start by
honing your gifts with continuous practice. Stretch your imagination. Exercise your mind to see possibilities. Get
to the peak of the mountain where you can easily see possibilities. You have
outgrown the
one talent world and one talent village cheerleader and cheer crowd. Move on
to more knowledgeable cheer leaders and cheer crowds who will cheer you into
your true destiny; into God’s plans and purposes for your life. You know the
truth, this cheerleader and cheer crowd lack the capacity, knowledge, wisdom
and understanding to cheer you into divine purpose. This is because their low
gifts, low anointing and low faith will always give poor results that will not
take you to the peak of the mountain of success. Like the disciples of Jesus
who could not handle the case of the epileptic boy, you will continue in the
circle of village champion celebrating electricity while the world has gone
digital. Additionally, they are
not headed in the same direction with you and therefore have no idea how to
cheer you into that direction. Secondly, they do not have any of the resources
you require to get to divine purpose. So why waste time on cheers that lead you
nowhere and keep you bound where you should not be in life. Why not move on to
cheers and applause by cheer leaders and crowds that will take you to divine
purpose. Divine purpose is your goal, destination and not dancing around pity
parties, litanies of woes, blame games, chasing after shadows and every excuse
which keeps you from getting to divine destination.
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