Wednesday of Holy Week

My favorite Bible passage is Matthew 25:14-30 because it tells us what is expected of us. It is interesting how the word Talent represented a form of money, but today we see that same word as a measure of our abilities, and it seems to me this was not just a coincidence for this passage…and here it is…

For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted them to his property; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, and I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, and I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! …you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. …And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’

This should give us some idea of what Judgment Day is going to be like. If you want to know more details about Judgment Day, keep reading Matthew 25 where this left off, which is verse 31.