All of God’s Children were & are created with Great Expectations! God created us all with gifts of talent which He expects us to use to create improvements in this Beautiful World that He created and gave to all His Children to live in!

Jesus Christ knowest His Heavenly Father also wants us to believe & have Great Expectations for ourselves!

In His parable of the talents, Jesus told us of a master who, before embarking on a long journey, entrusted his money into the hands of three servants. The master expected the servants to increase what he had given them. However, Matthew 25:19-23 tells us that when this master returned, he found that only the first two servants had increased what He had entrusted to them.

In verse 21, the Bible tells us the master returned and discovered that the first servant doubled his investment. When the master saw this increase, he said, “…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.” In verse 23, the master was similarly thrilled when he found out the second servant had doubled his investment as well: “His lord said unto him, 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.”

But why did the master call their success a “few things”? Their accomplishment wasn’t small. In fact, it was huge. Yet the master said to the first two servants, “…Thou hast been faithful over a few things….” His words “over a few things” seem to show that what they had done wasn’t such a big deal after all. I’m sure the servants were dumbfounded. What did their master mean? Was he belittling what they had done?

What the first two servants achieved was fantastic, but it was just the beginning. They had proven themselves to be hardworking and capable. They had proven responsibility. The master now knew they could be trusted with true riches. Because these two stewards had proven themselves faithful, the master saw a bright future ahead for them. As is always true with God, faithfulness resulted in promotion and greater responsibilities. The first two stewards had passed a test on a lower level. Now their master was satisfied to thrust them upward into even more monumental life assignments.

But when the master came to the third servant and saw that he had done nothing with the money given to him, he told the servant, “Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury” (vv. 26,27).

It is obvious that this third servant was not ignorant of the master’s expectation. He knew that the master expected increase from him. In fact, he told them, “Thou knewest.” This means the third servant couldn’t pretend to be ignorant. He knew that the master expected him to do something significant with what had been entrusted to him.

This master would accept no excuses for a lack of increase. It didn’t matter how difficult the situation, how many odds were against his servants, or how impossible it seemed, the master still expected increase. His servants understood that this was his expectation. Thus, the servant who did nothing with his talent found himself in a horrible predicament.

His master called him, “Thou wicked and slothful servant” (Matthew 25:26). As if this isn’t bad enough, in Matthew 25:30 his master called him “the unprofitable servant.” Before we go any further, we should stop and examine these words, for they vividly express Jesus’ personal sentiment toward people who have enormous potential but never develop it due to laziness.

Let’s look first at Matthew 25:26, where Jesus calls the non-productive servant “thou wicked and slothful servant.” The words “wicked and slothful” are taken from the single Greek word okneros. This word means lazy or idle. It carries the idea of a person who has a do-nothing, lethargic, lackadaisical, apathetic, indifferent, lukewarm attitude toward life.

This is a strong word, chosen by the Holy Spirit to tell us how strongly Jesus feels about those who are apathetic and lethargic about their spiritual lives and life assignments. Jesus has no taste for lackadaisical people. People who are lukewarm about their God-given abilities or who are indifferent about their assignments leave a sickening taste in the Lord’s mouth. He loves the person, but He strongly dislikes the lazy attitudes that keep them from reaching their maximum potential.

In Matthew 25:30, Jesus continues by calling this non-productive servant “the unprofitable servant.” The word “unprofitable” is from the Greek word achreios, which literally means useless. A literal translation in today’s vernacular would be the worthless servant.

This word describes a person whose existence in life is absolutely pointless. He is an aimless, purposeless person who contributes nothing to life. This person’s value has never been realized because he does nothing but take up space on the face of the earth. But like everyone else, this person had a choice. He could have become something significant if he had used what was entrusted to him. If he had used his God’s given talents to create for others, he was also creating for himself!

In this world we are all Servants of each other, but most of all we are gathered here to toil and work, for ourselves, for those who employ us, for our families and to Glorify God and what Our Creator has given onto us, A Breath of Life!

What we do, with that ‘Breath of Life’ that God has given onto us is up to us. To work to accomplish or to do nothing, being lazy and worthless to ourselves, our families and especially to God, Our Creator who gave us gifts of talent that are right before our eyes, and we won’t let our eyes and heart see them; so Open Thy Eyes!

God gave us this world to live in but also entrusted us to be good stewards and take diligent care of it for the future generations of God’s children. Learning and working to build and make it a better place for all of us, even for all the animal life that He created to inhabit and beautify this world. To bring love to Our Souls for this beautiful animal life and thus grow this love toward each other in this life that we have been given!

Movement and Motion is the fuel of life, work, toiling, stress, laughter, tired and weariness from a hard day’s work is a Thank You to God and to yourself! Tomorrow you will be revived, it shall be a new day, a better day, for movement gives your body, your mind new expectations and more energy to do!

Do not rust away like machinery that was new, never used and then that will never be used because of lack of use and movement! Let Jesus Christ guide you in this life, with His thoughts, His wisdom and love for you. Amen. Visit: prayerscircle.com