Faithful in All Things
How is your faithfulness concerning the big things God is asking you to do? How about the little things? How are you being faithful with what God has given you?
As followers of Jesus, we are each called to be faithful in all things, even in the little things that God has given us.
In the Parable of the Talents in Matthew’s Gospel account, Jesus says the Kingdom of God is ”like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.” (Matthew 25:14, ESV).
We have been entrusted to steward, or to manage, God’s property. We have been given a sacred trust to manage the resources of God in order to honor him and to advance his kingdom in the world.
As Jesus continues to tell the Parable of the Talents, he says the man gave to one servant five talents and to another two talents and to another one talent. Each servant was trusted to steward and to be faithful with a certain sum of resources, which were specifically and intentionally allocated to each of them.
The ones who had received the five talents and the two talents came forward, bringing five talents more, and two talents more, respectively, saying, “‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ And the one 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, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’” (Matthew 25:15-23, ESV).
When we are faithful with what God has given us, God is faithful to multiply his provision and blessing for the expansion of His Kingdom in the world. When we are faithful in the little things, God is faithful in multiplying his gifts, and God is faithful in setting us over much more than we can imagine. When we are faithful in the little things, we are invited to enter into the joy of our master Jesus.
May we be faithful with whatever God entrusts us with so that we may advance His Kingdom work in the world and enter into the joy of Jesus.
A Collect for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28): “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people, that bringing forth in abundance the fruit of good works, they may be abundantly rewarded when our Savior Jesus Christ comes to restore all things; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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