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Friday, November 9, 2007
The Greatest Risk
"Then another servant came in. The servant said to the king,
'Sir, here is your bag of money. I wrapped it in a piece of
cloth and hid it. I was afraid of you because you are a hard
man. You even take money that you didn't earn and gather food
that you didn't grow!' Then the king said to the servant,
'You bad servant! I will use your own words to condemn you.
You said that I am a hard man. You said that I even take
money that I didn't earn and gather food that I didn't grow.
If that is true, you should have put my money in the bank.
Then, when I came back, my money would have earned some
interest.' Then the king said to the men that were watching,
'Take the bag of money away from this servant and give it to
the servant that earned ten bags of money.' The men said to
the king, 'But sir, that servant already has ten bags of
money!' The king said, 'The person that uses what he has will
get more. But the person that does not use what he has will
have everything taken away from him. Now where are my
enemies? Where are the people that did not want me to be
king? Bring my enemies here and kill them. I will watch them
die!'"
-- Luke 19:20-27 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
If the others who received the King's bags of money made good use of
them, the third servant mentioned did just the opposite. His view of
the King was very negative and he was afraid to take risks and truly
use the money entrusted to him. His fears made him take the greatest
risk of all: doing nothing. Fear immobilizes us. Jesus doesn't want us
to be afraid to risk for the Kingdom; in fact, he wants us to know that
the greatest risk of all is to look fearfully at God and to think we
are playing it safe by just hiding all that he has entrusted to us to
use for his glory.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father, keep my heart from being afraid to make great efforts to do
great things. While I know that there is always a chance of an
embarrassing failure, I also realize that an even greater embarrassment
would be to do nothing with all that you have entrusted to me. Give me
wisdom and confidence in putting to use your truth and blessings in my
life. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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