Hey, That’s Me!

by: Lou Lotz

Have you ever watched a baby discover himself in a mirror? How he enjoys that smiling little guy who waves back at him. But then there comes a flash of recognition and a startling insight: “Hey, that’s me!”

I had heard the Parable of the Talents many times, but I never really heard it at all until there came that flash of recognition: “Hey, that’s me!” After all, the parable is not about nameless first-century servants; it’s about me. It’s about you. We are the ones to whom the master entrusts his property. To use a biblical term, we are stewards. All that we possess – time, talent, wealth – the gospel itself, is treasure from God. Our charge is to use it on God’s behalf.

Stewardship is not optional. The question is not whether you should be a steward; you already are one. The question is rather: what kind of steward are you? How will you use what God has given you?

“It is better for me to try all things and find them empty,” said Charlotte Bronte, “than to try nothing and leave my life a safe and secure blank.” Every moment is a kind of currency. It is a currency that we spend simply by living. So spend it for God’s sake, that someday it may be said of you, “Well done, good and faithful servant . . . enter into the joy of your master.”