The following is a poem filled with instruction on using our talents in teaching the Gospel to others and not being like the unprofitable servant in Matthew 25:24-30
“Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew Thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: to, there thou hast that is thine. His Lord then said, unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put My money to the exchangers, and then at My coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that that not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
“He made no mistakes, took no wrong roads. He never fumbled the ball.
He never went down ‘neath the weight of a load. He simply did nothing at all.
He lost no hard fight in defense of the right. Never bled with his back to the wall.
He never felt faint in his climb to the light. He simply did nothing at all.
So death came nigh for life slips by, and he feared for the judgment Hall;
When they asked him why, he said with a sigh, I simply did nothing at all.
So God will pardon your blunder, my friend, or regard with pity your fall;
But the one big sin that surely means hell is simply to do nothing at all.”
“Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established.” Proverbs 16:3
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Ecclesiastes 9:10
May we all commit to the this new year, in the study of His Word, and in teaching others the Gospel plan of salvation.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.” II Timothy 2:15
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Eileen Light