I keep coming back to Matthew 25:21:
“Well done, good and faithful servant!”
I don’t know about you, but I would really like to hear those words when my life is over.
You probably know the story without even needing to peek back at Matthew 25. The master left talents—bags of gold—something to work with. Some of his servants put those assets to work. And one did not.
At the end of the story, there was an accounting. What did you do with what I gave you?
It presents us with a very important question:
What is God asking you to do with your life?
That’s a really important question.
If we want to get to “Well done, good and faithful servant,” we need to find the answer to that question.
Do you have the answer? Do you have your answer—the answer that fits you?
I’ve been obsessing about this for a long time—in some ways for my entire life. Some day we stand before God, and compared to that moment, everything else shrinks into insignificance.
Only one thing matters.
Are we doing what God is asking us to do?
Or are we not?
Almost everybody chases success. Some people find it. And please know that I wish every success for you. I pray God rains down buckets of blessing right on top of your head—so much that you don’t have room to contain it all.
But at the end of the day, success doesn’t really matter all that much.
Only one thing matters.
Are we doing what God is asking us to do?
Are we headed for “Well done, good and faithful servant”?
Dwight
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