Faithful Over a Few Things.
It is not the greatness of our talents, but the faithfulness with which we use what God has committed to us, that shall commend us to his approval at the last day. God will not estimate merely the greatness of the work wrought, but the greatness of the heart by which the work is wrought. It was not the amount cast in by the poor widow that made her offering so acceptable, but the fact that she cast in her all. It was the great heart that made it a great deed. It is folly to lament the smallness of our talents. It is, in fact, casting reproach upon our Creator. How many talents we have, is not the question that is to determine our destiny, but what use we have put them to, will be that on which everything will turn. We shall find that each one of us has all that he shall be able to give a good account of. Let us use what we have with the utmost diligence. If the Judge shall utter words of approval it will be because we have been faithful over the few things committed to us. And surely we ought now to know whether this is true in our own cases. Let us bear in mind that our eternal destiny is suspended upon our present conduct. Now is our probation and trial. Our reward shall be according to our works. Why should we be ashamed of our “few things,” and neglect to use them, when the Judge is not ashamed to own what we thus do before the whole universe? The day of reckoning is at hand. Are we ready to meet it? A strict account will be instituted in our cases. Can we meet the searching test?