This is an email i sent to my friend in Australia. hope you'll be blessed by it, and be challenged to do more for God :)

about the 10 talents guy. i realise sth. what God refers to as those who have more much more will be given and those who have little even what they have will be taken away from him. it is not referring to the material amount, but in terms of desire. the 10 talents and 5 talents guys both have got a desire to do more for their masters, but the 1 talent guy didn't have that desire, so he just did the bare minimum - protect the 1 talent.

if it was talking about physical amount, than the 5 talents guy also will be taken away from him. then we can ask, what is the standard of "much/many"? the difference between the 3 guys is the desire that they have for their masters.

so we got to desire more, and not have the lay back attitude and do just the bare minimum for God. because when you desire to do more for God, much more will be given to you, but if you go and do the bare minimum, what was given to you God will take it away.

this is especially true in terms of leaders, because they got lots of things under their charge. so they have to do more for God so more will be added to them. but to those leaders who do the bare minimum, even those given under his charge will be removed and given to those who would do more.

i believe that we're all called into leadership positions, and even now, there are definitely a few things under our charge. money, for example, is under our charge to be managed. i used to think that, oh i just do what is needed its ok, just do what boss says, just give tithe and offering its ok. but now, after seeing this parable, it got me to think, yes, i must do more than just what is required! hey, just wanna challenge you to leave the bare minimum level and go all out and do more with the things that are under your charge that God has given to you :) gambatte!

love,
victor