Matthew 25:14-30 ~ Journey

 

Matthew 25:14-30

14 "For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 

15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.

20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' 21 His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'

22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' 23 His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'

24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.'

26 But his master answered him, 

'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Life.

When we encounter someone telling us this about Father God, "'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.'

Deism
We find someone telling us God is not just, life is too hard, God takes away, God takes for Himself, and Fear. Views of a very harsh God do not cling to the tenderness of God. Abraham was willing to ask God of The Universe for mercy over sinner's lives. And God made the Views of Abraham - Father of the Nations.

Deism is a Monotheism belief one God does exist. However, God does not intervene in the world, or interfere with human life and the laws of the universe. A non-interventionist creator who permits the universe to run itself according to natural laws. And in Scriptures, God tells us to pray with hope. Jesus tells us God is not an unjust Judge.

When we encounter harsh views of God, we encounter a bumpy road ahead with this person. The views of the universe observed will be demonstrated by word and deed.

This entire passage is about building Life.

Matthew 6:33-34

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

and all these things will be added to you. “

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, 

for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. 

Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."

The man with five talents trusts God to help him make ten talents. 

And Abundant Life is going to occur.

James 1:7

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,

coming down from the Father of lights,

with whom there is no variation

or shadow due to change.

As he aged, Claude Monet knew his talent was waning. And he and Matisse created new styles to retrieve and surf to let the Blessing of God flow.  

Claude Monet used his Blue Period to overcome cataracts.  

Matisse would have similar eye problems and would create a new form of modernization to paint a Chapel in France using his skill to give Glory to God. Both men supported one another in the changing of talents.

Spring is coming sooner than we think

Claude Monet's talent left us more eye for colors hidden in life. He did not live in the antibiotics' generation, having died in 1926. He experienced many of his dearly loved people died. His first wife, Camille. Tuberculosis found his family. He remarried a very good friend of theirs and began to experience at least 10 periods of deep-seated grief for losing someone he loved.

Even when Claude Monet was blinded by cataracts - he painted. To paint was Glory. Not effort. And as these people died in Claude Monet's life - he found he was unable to produce any paintings for two years. This would add up to being twenty years of being unable to find joy enough to paint.

Grief was far heavier than physical aging and talent changing. Psychology today tells us grief is a two-year period. I noticed when my father, Daddy, died I had grief and then later I had the work of grief recovery. It became two separate things. The second year was the climb back to normal life. I doubt this is avoidable. Or even healthy to avoid.



Finding the Next Two Talents

We find our emotions have two parts - loss and recovery.
Depression is a sense of loss. If we focus on recovery entirely, we cannot attain the recovery.

Compassion.
Abraham demonstrated compassion. When we can focus on those we love - we begin to recover. When we can focus on little things for joy - we recover. Grief is angered when life makes us do the work of life. The work of life is recovery.

Giving compassion to others is part of the 12-Step Plan for AA. Compassion for others is placed with mental health recovery. Out-patients go and feed the homeless. And in giving - we are healed.

The Joy of the Lord is My Strength

Giving Grace, mercy, gives us mercy for ourselves. Joy is fuel. The Joy of the Lord is my strength. On cloudy days, I believe the Son will Shine. And reflect His Love and mercy, believing life has its troubles and Jesus overcomes.

I find this is true. Doing for others creates what we do for ourselves. Spring is coming.

Seasons of winter where the earth rests.
Seasons of sun and warmth of sunshine on the firm, concrete path.

The Lord

Saying, 

My purpose will be established,

 And I will do all that pleases Me 

and 

fulfills My purpose 

Abba, Father!

Merry Christmas!

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

and

GIVE THANKS
FOR YOUR BLESSINGS

THANK YOU

The safety 

of Your people.

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And in Jesus - this Hope, 

Faith and Love - we will rise up believing Jesus. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus

Amos 9:5-15 ~ Behold

Amos 9:5-15

 

The Lord God of Hosts

He who touches the earth 

and it melts,

And 

all who dwell in it mourn,

and 

all of it rises like the Nile,

and sinks again, 

like the Nile of Egypt

Who builds His upper chambers 

in the Heavens

and 

founds His vault 

upon the earth

Who calls for the waters of the sea

and 

pours them out upon the surface of the earth—

The Lord is His Name!

7 “Are you not like the Cushites to me,

O people of Israel?”

Declares the Lord.

“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,

and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?

8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord God 

are upon the sinful kingdom,

and 

I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,

except 

that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

Declares the Lord.

“For behold, 

I will command,

and shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a sieve,

but 

no pebble shall fall to the earth.

10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

“In that day I will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins

and 

rebuild it as in the days of old,

That they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations 

who are called by My Name,”

declares the Lord 

Who does this.

“Behold, the days are coming,” 

Declares the Lord,

“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes 

him who sows the seed

The mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and 

they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;

They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and 

they shall make gardens 

and eat their fruit.

I will plant them on their land,

and 

they shall never again be uprooted

out of the land 

that I have given them,”

Says the Lord your God.

I love Matthew Henry! Any day of the week, he is beautiful and eloquent. Loving and Tender

as God. The English language has changed in the 250 + years he had his Bible Commentary:

Matthew Henry’s commentary on Amos:

GOD employed a shepherd, a herdsman! One who cares for others tenderly. 

And uses this tender person to reprove and warn the people. Those to whom God gives abilities for his services, ought not to be despised for their origin, or their employment. Like the advice of Gamaliel - what comes from God should not be tampered with. God places His Holy Spirit in all who believe. Good news.

Let us continue earnest in prayer for the fulfillment of these prophecies, in the peace, purity, and the beauty of the Church! God marvelously preserves His elect amidst the most fearful confusions and miseries. When all seems desperate, He wonderfully revives His Church, and blesses her with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. And great shall be the glory of that period, in which not one good thing promised shall remain unfulfilled.

God does this! 

HE is a giver, 

a bringer,

a maker of blessings! 

Who can do it! The Great I Am has determined to do it! 

Isaiah 46:9-10: 

"Remember the former things which I did from ages past; 

For I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, 

and there is no one like Me, 

Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, 

And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done, 

Saying, 

'My purpose will be established,

 And I will do all that pleases Me 

and 

fulfills My purpose'" 

Abba, Father!

Merry Christmas!

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

and

GIVE THANKS
FOR YOUR BLESSINGS

THANK YOU

The safety 

of Your people.

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And in Jesus - this Hope, 

Faith and Love - we will rise up believing Jesus. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus

John 5:24 ~ Life forever more †

 

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, 

 whoever hears My Word 

and 

believes Him 

Who sent Me has eternal life. 

He does not come into judgment, 

but has passed from death to life.

Merry Christmas

2024

Jesus Christ our Lord

Let us Bless

The Lord

Gold

Today!

Our Love and Thanks, Father!

Matthew 2

Gold

Frankincense

Myrrh

Gifts

The gold coins in Jesus birth,

12 types of Gold Roman Aureus Coins

Locally Phoenician Coins, YHW Jewish Coins

Fragrance 

Exodus 30: 34

Then the Lord said to Moses, 

Gather fragrant spices—resin droplets, mollusk shell, and galbanum—and mix these fragrant spices with pure frankincense, 

weighed out in equal amounts. 

Why?

Revelation 5:8

 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down 

before the Lamb, 

each holding a harp, 

and 

golden bowls 

full of incense, 

which are 

The prayers of the saints.

Fragrance!

Frankincense

Today!

Our Love and Prayers, Father!

Thank You for Jesus Christ.

 2 Corinthians 2:14 

Thanks be to God, 

Who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, 

and through us spreads

 the fragrance of 

The knowledge of Him everywhere. 

Myrrh is found in Somalia in the time of Jesus' birth

Health!

Myrrh

Thank You, Father for Answered Prayers

Today!

Long Life, Good Health, Pain Free and a pleasant Passing

to 

live Honorably

Thank You for Jesus Christ.

Myrrh is usually associated with embalming.

However, 

The Ancients considered Myrrh Medicine

and

a Gift of Health, Long Life, Pain Free and Peaceful Passing

Myrrh has been used as an antiseptic in mouthwashes, gargles, and toothpastes.

Used in liniments and salves applied to abrasions and other minor skin ailments.

Like a balm of Gilead.

 Myrrh has evidence to suggest certain compounds in myrrh interact with central NSAID pathways in the brain. Myrrh has been used as a painkiller for toothache pain and in liniments applied to bruises, aching muscles, and sprains.

 Myrrh gum has a history saying this reduces the symptoms of indigestion, ulcers, colds, cough, asthma, respiratory congestion, arthritis, and cancer, although more good scientific evidence is needed to support these uses.

The wise men 

were 

not wishing 

to embalm the Lord Baby Jesus,

and, instead, 

bringing 

blessings:

Good Health, Long Life, Pain free and a pleasant passing.

National Institute of Health Gov

on uses of myrhh

Myrrh - National Institutes of Health Search Results

Article from

HEATHLINE with Clinical Research Footnotes and links

HEALTHLINE Eleven Surprising Benefits and Uses of Myrrh Oil

Ancient Egyptians used myrrh and other essential oils to embalm mummies, as the oils not only provide a nice scent but also slow decay. Scientists now know this is because the oils kill bacteria and other microbes (5Trusted Source).

Additionally, in Biblical times, myrrh incense — often in combination with frankincense — was burned in places of worship to help purify the air and prevent the spread of contagious diseases, including those caused by bacteria.

One recent study found that burning myrrh and frankincense incense reduced airborne bacterial counts by 68% (6Trusted Source).

Preliminary animal research has been done, but significant studies in the National Library of Medicine quit considering myrrh in the 1880s A.D. 

This is still significant in the Biblical gifts of medicinal good health wishes. Egyptians might have hoped to heal the dead body by using myrrh.

In one test-tube study, myrrh oil at a low dilution of 0.1% killed all dormant Lyme disease bacteria, which can persist in some people after antibiotic treatment and continue to cause illness (11Trusted Source).

Let There Be Light  

  

Isaiah 60:3

And nations shall come to your light, 

and kings to the brightness of your rising. 

  

Isaiah 60:16

 

You shall suck the milk of nations; 

you shall nurse at the breast of kings; 

and you shall know that 

I, the Lord, Am your Savior and your Redeemer, 

the Mighty One of Jacob.  

  

Isaiah 60:10-11

Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you;

 for in my wrath I struck you, 

but in my favor 

I have had mercy on you. 

Your gates shall be open continually; 

day and night they shall not be shut, 

that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, 

with their kings led in procession. 

  

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says the Lord: 

“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying:

 ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides Him.’”  

  

Psalm 34:22

The Lord 

redeems the life of His servants; 

none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned  

Myrrh

Long Life, Good Health, Pain Free and a pleasant Passing

to 

live Honorably

Today!

Thank You for Jesus Christ.

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, 

'Oh that you would bless me 

and enlarge my border, 

and that your hand might be with me, 

and that you would keep me from harm 

so that it might not bring me pain! ' 

And God granted what he asked.”

Abba, Father!

Merry Christmas!

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

and

GIVE THANKS
FOR YOUR BLESSINGS

THANK YOU

The safety 

of Your people.

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And in Jesus - this Hope, 

Faith and Love - we will rise up believing Jesus. 

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus