Seeking honor
We seek honor by the proper management and investment of the physical and material things that are in our possession or under our supervision and the different gifts, talents and abilities with which we have been endowed as illustrated in the parables of the unjust steward, the minas and the talents.
According to these parables we see how one will ultimately be honored and rewarded dependent of how well they manage whatever is placed under their power and jurisdiction.
For example we see in the case of the unjust steward that if one is faithful in what is least he/she will also be faithful in what is much and so we have been duly admonished saying; “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home. He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much: Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own (Luke 16:9-12)?
Now with reference to the parable of the Minas we see that, everyone will be given an equal opportunity but will be rewarded according to their individual efforts and the one who did nothing with what has been attributed to them will not be honored instead the master said to him; “Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?'
"And he said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.' (But they said to him, 'Master, he has ten minas.') 'For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him” (Luke 19:23-26).
And with reference to the parable of the talents we see that talents were given to each according to their ability and the one who made the proper use of his talents; “His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord” (Matthew 25:21, 23).
But to the one who did not invest and develop what was given to him to him the master said; “You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.’
“For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” Matthew 25:26-30).
We also need to take into consideration the fact that, whatever gifts, talents and abilities that we have they are for the benefit of all as we have been duly instructed saying; “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all” (1 Corinthians 12:4-7).
And so our honor will be dependent on how we utilize the material and physical things that are under our control and jurisdiction and how we use our endowed gifts and talents for the benefit of others.
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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