Matthew 20:27-28 (Amplified Bible)
27) And whoever desires to be first among you must be your slave--
28) Just as the Son of Man came not to be waited on but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many [the price paid to set them free].
Tonight as I was chatting with a friend. I asked a question, why do you think God allowed us to encounter each other? For in a moment as we conversed I noticed something, I noticed their weaknesses were my strengths and some of their perceived strengths were my weaknesses. I had heard Pastor preach before on divine exchange and how in relationships, friendships there should be an element of divine exchange. That their should be character traits within them that pulled us up to a new level and vise versa. There should be areas in the people we interact with that pull us up higher and to a new and challenging level of existence. Like wise we should find ourselves giving what we have matured to, learned, obtained and been delivered to, into the hands of others that we are in fellowship with or encounter.
In the Bible we see the parable of the Master who leaves His servants with a certain amount of talents, while he is away. When the Master returns he questions the servants as to what they did with the talents. The ones who increased what they had been given, found themselves praised, and entrusted with more and the one that feared what he was given and buried it, found himself chastised and what was given to begin with, taken away from him and given to one who had made use of what was entrusted to him. So often that is our fate, God entrust us with things, abilities and resources and instead of multiplying them, sharing them, utilizing them we bury them, fearing that we might lose or place them in dangerous positions. When we do not make use of or multiply what is placed in to our lives we are not challenged and we are not challenging anyone or anything. We have instead taken to hiding what we have to offer for fear of being rejected or hurt. If we are pressing into a deeper relationship and connection with God we should be feeling the need to come up higher to a place of growth and maturity a place where we can be entrusted with more, because we have been good stewards over what we have been given. We should be challenging ourselves to live a life that exhibits a portrait of growth and ingenuity to empowering those we encounter and stewarding those in our care.
Today look at your circle of influence and look at those who you influence. Are you being challenged and are you challenging. As knowledge, experience, prosperity and resources are bestowed on you , who is it that you are bestowing those things upon. Are you hiding all you have obtained or are you freely giving and multiply so that we can prove yourselves worthy of more responsibility.
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