Spotless???

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A white cloth can tell two tales:
1. It belongs to a very careful user who walks meticulously, careful not to get stained. Takes other precautions like wearing aprons or gowns over the material when at work to prevent spills.
2. It belongs to one who is not using it. It sits clean in its wrapping untouched, unblemished and unused

Where am I going with this?

I guess I feel like I am being challenged by guy number 3 in the parable of the talents in Matthew 25. Unlike his predecessors who had multiplied their talents, he said to the master:
‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ 

Logically one could argue that at least he hadn't squandered the gold or made an investment and lost all the money. Wouldn't that have been much worse? What would he have had to show the master if something bad had happened and he had no gold to show when he returned? But instead of being grateful that the servant still had the exact amount of gold he had been given, the master called him wicked and lazy!

Wicked? Huh? Lazy?? Turns out it is actually wicked and lazy of us to do nothing with what we are given. To just try and stay pure, uncontaminated by the world without actually getting out there, sowing seed and working what He has given us. Of course so many things can go wrong! But you see, the master hasn't gifted or chosen you so that you can guard your light by hiding it under a bowl or digging a deep safe place to keep it.

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He is calling us to get up and try. Who knows, maybe your singing or blogging will get better? Maybe you will become a better financial analyst? Maybe you can be a part of what He is doing in our world? Maybe you can grow and surprise yourself. Who knows? What I do know, is that there is no hiding. Get out there and try. The master thinks you can or He wouldn't have put all these things within you and chosen you. He avails His grace to help us to tell a different tale of the white cloth.

I finished uni by the way(so sorry I didn't tell you guys!). I therefore moved from being a student to being unemployed. I sit here pondering on what this word means for me... What should I be doing differently? Maybe I need to stop waiting for the job to be the means by which I channel my energies? Maybe there is more I can do where I am now? Well, I will be thinking on this!