Light Your World
Martha Noebel

Don't waste what God has given to you. Put it to good use for His glory!

Look at all the ideas we have wasted. These brightly-lit light bulbs are all the good ideas we have thrown into the wastebasket. They are gifts, talents, articles never written, creative suggestions that were never implemented, … you've got the idea.

Remember the story of the servants and the talents as mentioned in Matthew 25:14-28? Each one received talents (coins) from the master according to their abilities. Then the master went away on a journey. The three servants thought about what would be the best thing to do with this treasure. Two of them invested the coins, thus putting them to good use. The third servant just dug a hole and buried his gift. He did not use it. When the master returned every one was proud of how they had taken care of the coins. The problem was the master was not happy with all of them. He had expected that all of the talents would be used in a productive manner.

The first two servants heard things like, "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!" Wow, I know they were happy! Good job, the master was saying. Now the third servant heard, "You wicked, lazy servant! … Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so when I returned I would have received it back with interest. Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents." Bummer. That is something I would not want to hear.

When we stand before God on that day, we want to hear the first comment. We want to be good and faithful servants having used what God has given us. What gifts and talents do we have that are buried or lying dormant? We should be using all God has given us, no excuses. When we look at the basket of light bulbs, we can see what we are doing. We are taking all those bright ideas, gifts, and talents and tossing them away. Oh, how sad. Let us take all the light bulbs and plug them into the current of the power of God. We can be bright lights in this world.

Let's dust off "the things we can do for God"; things we have tossed out as not important. We need to put them to use. We can trust Him with the results. Let's make a difference. Let's go "light our world" for Christ.

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