God Multiplies My Talents

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for February 10
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God Multiplies My Talents

Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over
a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into
the joy of thy lord. Matt. 25:21

God has given us talents to use for Him. To one He gives five talents,
to another two, and to another one. Let not him who has but one talent
think to hide it from God. The Lord knows where it is hidden. He knows
that it is doing nothing for Him. When the Lord comes, He will ask His
servants, What have you done with the talents I entrusted to you? And as
he who received five and he who received two tell Him that by trading
they have doubled their talents, He will say to them, "Well done, good
and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things. . . . Enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord." Thus He will say also to him who has improved the one talent lent
him. . . . 

To him who has but one talent I would say, Do you know that one talent,
rightly used and improved, will bring to the Lord one hundred talents?
How? you ask. Use your gift in the conversion of one man of intellect,
who sees what God is to him, and what he should be to God. Let him place
himself on the side of the Lord, and as he imparts the light to others,
he will be the means of bringing many souls to the Saviour. Through the
right use of one talent one hundred souls may receive the truth. It is
not to those who have the greatest number of talents to whom the "Well
done" is spoken, but to those who in sincerity and faithfulness have
used their gifts for the Master. . . . 

There is a great work to be done in our world, and we are accountable
for every ray of light that shines upon our pathway. Impart that light,
and you will receive more light to impart. Great blessing will come to
those who use their talents aright. 

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 47.