DCLM Higher Everyday 21 April 2025 — Don’t Bury That Talent
DCLM Higher Everyday 21 April 2025 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Don’t Bury That Talent
Topic: Don’t Bury That Talent
Text: Matthew 25:14-19
14For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
16Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
17And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Key Verse: “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 25:30).
Message
The saying is true, “What you don’t use, you lose.” If you hung your hand in a sling and would not use it for one whole month, you would lose some function in that hand. There is a unique ability that God has given you, some skill or talent in which you can excel. Your talent may be literary, artistic, or creative, but it shines forth and even expands through constant usage. Like the unprofitable servant in our passage today, some youths are consumed by jealousy of other people’s talents while despising and neglecting their own.
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Born-again youths possess an added advantage. When their natural talent is consecrated to the Lord, it may transform into a spiritual gift that blesses countless lives for God. Are you born again? Follow the example of Joseph who sought every opportunity to help others with his gift of dreams and interpretation. Joseph’s talent eventually became the ladder upon which he ascended to the office of the Prime Minister in Egypt. Therefore, identify your God-given talent, consecrate it to God and then build it, don’t bury it. Remember, today is World Creativity and Innovation Day.
Quote: Identify your God-given talent
Challenge: Do something for others today.
Prayer for today: Make me a channel of blessing, Lord.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
