What can you offer the Church?
It can be hard to know one's place as a Christian, the way God is calling you to serve.
This can be especially hard for young people.
Rather than wrestle with difficult questions or the challenges of Christian life, many young people fall away from the Church.
Rather than use what God has given them, they give in to disappointment, discouragement, even fear.
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, Jesus tells us about a man who gave His servants some money. He gave 5 talents to one, 2 to another, and 1 to the third servant.
What did those servants do with the money?
The first two doubled their master’s funds: from 5 to 10, and from 2 to 4.
But the third servant, out of fear, simply hid the 1 talent he received.
How many of us hide what God has given us because we are afraid?
In this Sunday’s Epistle reading, Paul writes about the difficulties that Christians face. He gives an honest account of the kinds of challenges he himself faced:
afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger… (2 Corinthians 6:4-5)
Yet despite these obstacles, Paul writes in a spirit of hope and faith. Because, “as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way” to the task God has appointed for us.
May we all treat each other with “forbearance, kindness, and genuine love” (2 Corinthians 6:6) as we struggle to discover the talents that God has given us.
And to put them to good use.
Peace,
Steve Christoforou/Be The Bee