God’s Command to Man; Multiply! (Part 2‪)‬ Verspiration

Jesus preceded the parable of the talent with the words “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”
Man has not been placed here on earth to while away time. There is a specific reason for our existence. Therefore in anticipation of the Son of Man’s coming we are to keep watch and what better way to do that than to work? We were made to work. When Adam was placed in the garden, He was charged to take care of it. Adam had the ability to do what God asked him to do. God has a mission for everyone and He expects us to accomplish it in the here and now.

There are lessons from the parable of the talent;
We need to understand first and foremost that we have been given something.
Just as the master expected his servants to do more with what had been entrusted to them, so does God expect us to generate a return by using what He has given us towards productive ends. And this return can only be gathered when we multiply what has been given to us.
The servants were given enough to produce more because their talents had the seed of multiplication. So are we; wired with talents that have the seed to produce in multiples.

Secondly, we have been given according to what we can do and it takes the same amount of effort to multiply what we have.
The master gave to each servant talents, “…each according to his ability.” The master understood that the one-talent servant was not capable of producing as much as the five-talent servant or the two-talent servant. This flows from the fact that it takes just as much work for the five-talent servant to produce five more talents as it does the one-talent servant to produce one more talent.
God has placed in us gifts; some have received more than others not because God discriminates but according to their ability. We have been given more than enough to meet the master’s expectations. Each and everyone of us has something we must do here on earth. That is why we must multiply the seed in us. It takes much effort to multiply a talent of one as it does in the same measure a talent of five and God knows we are well able.

Thirdly, we need to settle it within our hearts that God has prepared us in advance for what we have to do.
The servant who received one talent received as much as he could handle from the master to produce but chose to bury it in his backyard. He was given more than enough to meet the master’s expectations, yet decided to do nothing about it.
Unfortunately, that’s the story of many of us- it is the same with the gifts God has given us. We remain at the level of excitement pondering to the point of broadcasting what we have received yet do not multiply!
We bury the talent hoping it will without effort multiply.
God always gives us everything we need, to do what He has called us to do. That which God has called us to do, He has already prepared us for it in advance. The Apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 2:10:
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. 
You have to know, you have to come to an understanding that you have it in you to multiply what you have. You have been prepared in advance for this.

We also gather from the parable that God will hold us accountable for what He has placed us here for. From the parable, there’s not a single servant who received nothing; it means we have all been given something. Until we work to increase and multiply what we have been given we will not fulfill our earthly callings. What are you using what you’ve been given to do?
Have you multiplied the one? How about you who had five? Or the two?
We are responsible for what we do for God with what we have been given, and one day we will be held responsible.
What we hear from the Master on that day is up to us.

Beloved, you have it in you;
Identify it,
Count how many,
And multiply it greatly for the benefit of mankind