The Parable of the Talents

The Parable of the Talents

By- Psycho Squirrels

What The Parable is Telling What The Parable is Telling YouYou

This parable is telling you two This parable is telling you two different things. This is what the different things. This is what the first thing is…first thing is…

Use Your TalentsUse Your Talents

If you are talented at If you are talented at something, God something, God wants you to let that wants you to let that talent shine. Some talent shine. Some people are awesome people are awesome singers, but they are singers, but they are afraid of performing, afraid of performing, or they sing a song or they sing a song that doesn’t please that doesn’t please God.God.

Some people are really Some people are really good at sports, but yet good at sports, but yet they don’t want to play they don’t want to play any. They think that it any. They think that it might be to hard, or that might be to hard, or that they wouldn’t be any they wouldn’t be any good. It shouldn’t really good. It shouldn’t really matter. God gave you the matter. God gave you the ability to do something, ability to do something, so you should do it.so you should do it.

God gave you God gave you talents. Use them talents. Use them to glorify and to glorify and praise him. praise him.

What the Parable is Telling What the Parable is Telling YouYou

This parable is also telling you This parable is also telling you something else…something else…

Make Wise DecisionsMake Wise Decisions

• The parable is telling you that you should make wise decisions. The servant that buried the money might have thought that he had made a smart decision, but he really didn’t.

The servant should The servant should have invested his have invested his money in something money in something so that he could so that he could make a profit. Even make a profit. Even if he had ended up if he had ended up losing money, he losing money, he would have tried would have tried something to earn something to earn more. It showed that more. It showed that the servant was lazy the servant was lazy and that he couldn’t and that he couldn’t think through his think through his decisions.decisions.

How to Make Good DecisionsHow to Make Good Decisions

If you are going to If you are going to make any kind of make any kind of decision, you decision, you should consult God should consult God about it. God about it. God knows what is best knows what is best for you. for you.

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