The Buried Talent

Many believers feel they have to apologise before admitting they are good at something. Oh, it’s nothing. Anyone could do it. It sounds humble. Sometimes it is fear wearing humility’s clothes.

In Jesus’ parable, one servant took what his master gave him and buried it. “And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.” He thought he was being careful. His master called him wicked and slothful.

If a gift is something God entrusted to you, then naming it plainly isn’t pride. It is stewardship. Peter says, “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” Gifts are given so they can be used for others.

So what are you good at? Say it out loud, and then thank God for it. Then ask how you can use it this week to serve someone.