Matthew 25:29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

The parable of the talents is one of the most common parables in scripture. From the opening scripture, the one who has will be given more. The servants who had more used what they were given wisely and so, they ended up having more. When you don’t use resources well, you will always not have enough.

The first thing that usually comes to mind is the use of talents and abilities. However, this parable has many different aspects to it. Every resource we have must be used wisely. This would be an investment of what we have to have great returns. Our time, talent, and money must all be properly invested so we can benefit later. Investment multiplies what you have so we need to use our time, money, and skills in such a way that they produce results that are more than what we started with. The servant which was given one talent saved that talent by burying it. However, the others invested and so the talents were multiplied.

God is interested in how we put to use what He gives us. He just doesn’t want us to save it and do nothing with it. The little investment of our time, talent, and money could go a long way to affect other lives and produce much more than we put in. God didn’t just keep Jesus and said He had a begotten Son, He gave Him to us. It was an investment to reap many more sons. Time is an asset and it is often said that time is money. This means that the way we use the time we have could either put money into our pocket or take money out of it. If we invest in our lives by using our time for profitable things, our lives tomorrow will be better.

Wisdom is seen in preparing for the future.

-The word in clarity

Wisdom is seen in preparing for the future. Proverbs 24:27 says, Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field, And afterward build your house. This has to do with planning for the future. When we have an idea of the kind of future we want, we plan towards it and work on it to make it happen. Using talents wisely also means developing that talent to become a skill. Talent is natural and raw but skill is talent plus technique. Even if you are naturally good at something, be willing to learn more to sharpen that gift, make it valuable so that the price can be high. When people see how good you are, you don’t have to argue about how much they should give you. They would fight to get you to do it for them. Proverbs 18:16 A man’s gift makes room for him And brings him before great men.

When we use money wisely, we spend on the things that matter. Most people spend for the wrong reasons: Competition, greed, pressure. They buy certain things because everyone has it, it’s the latest and they feel out of a group if they don’t look a certain way. But wisdom looks at the future not now. If you’d spend a lot on things that are not needed now, you may end up paying later. It is better to spend wisely now and invest for what you want to see in the future while looking poor now and enjoying later when your money is working for you. Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

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