“Faithful in that which is least” (Luke xvi. 10).
The man that missed his opportunity and met the doom of the faithless
servant was not the man with five talents, or the man with two, but the
man who had only one. The people who are in danger of missing life’s great
meaning are the people of ordinary capacity and opportunity, and who say
to themselves, “There is so little I can do that I will not try to do
anything.” One of the finest windows in Europe was made from the remnants
an apprentice boy collected from the cuttings of his master’s great work.
The sweepings of the British mint are worth millions. The little pivots on
which the works of your watch turn are so important that they are actually
made of jewels. And so God places a solemn value and responsibility on the
humble workers, the people that try to hide behind their insignificance
the trifling opportunities and the single talents; and our littleness will
not excuse us in the reckoning day.
“Talk not of talents, what hast thou to do?
Thou hast sufficient, whether five or two.
Talk not of talents; is thy duty done?
This brings the blessing whether ten or one.”