I need some help?

[Fishing Eddie]

I know sounds like a loaded question. Not really the help I need is some input to a task that was brought before me at Last Sundays service.
Ron Post founder of N.W. Medical Teams brought the message to us on stewartship, My family and I tithe every month we encourage our daugthers to tithe also with any money they make baby sitting and so on, I know you could careless about are giving habits so back to the task before me.
After his message Ron ask for one person to come up front from each family, and then high school kids to also come up front. This is where it gets good. He then asked if we remembered the parable of the talents? He then grabs a envolope pulls out this money he gives each high school kid a twenty dollar bill and each adult a fifty dollar bill :shocked: and then challages us to make this grow. They did not take names nor did you have a picture taken of you it was in trusted to you.Yo can do anything with it you like, but remember the task.
What I'm asking is for some ideas graemlins/idea.gif I want to make this money double for the Lord. I know as with the parable that there will be some that might just put that money back in the plate there may even be some that keep the money but I know the Lord will have some neat testimonies as to how the Lord worked in those that seek His will .
This has been on my heart all week long and I would also challenge you to to invest in the bank of the Lord as there is nothing that will bring you returns on your investment as He can. :smile: by the way when the money is returned it was asked to be put in a envolpe and marked missions, no name. just missions.

Keep The Faith Rod

[BlueWater]

Eddie-
I believe you will find your answer by reading the rest of the chapter.
The meaning I get from the pasage is not about growing material wealth but growing the gift god "the Master" has given you. To me the money he gives the servants represents our salvation and belief in everlasting life. John 3:16 stuff.

To make it short god "the Master" gave us "his servants" our salvation and faith "the money" and he wishes us not to be stagnent with our faith but make it grow. In our self and others.

That is why he talks about gathering the nations at his right and left hands and then compliments the nations at his right on the good things they have done for others. Because by sharing what he has given them is also glorifying the lord. "inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brothern, ye have done it to me."

But he is very angry with the nations who were given the same gift and did not do the good things for others. In other words they are the servant who was given the money and just hid it from the word. Using the excuse 'the lord has so much already why should I need to give him more'. He is angry he has given such a wonderfull gift and they wasted it on themselves.

This I just my take I would add but You could take the pasage in its literal way and double the money to $100. Or you could do as the nations on his right hand did and "help the least of these my brothern". Buy a poor kid a coat. Or $50 in food for a mission or family you know and share with them what has happened and then share with them the pasage that inspired your good works. Get and old lady a bus pass to go to church. I don't know there are a thousand things you could with it.

So in your mission envelope put in the recepts for the "Insomuch you have done unto one.. " .
Then again I could be all wrong. Just my take on things.

God Bless
BlueWater.

[Fishing Eddie]

BlueWater, thanks for your thoughts, and I agree with you it's not at all the material balance sheet we can make grow but our own involvement in Christ Kingdom to come. I'll be honest I love to fish and shoot and at times I can be very selfish of "my time" rather then thinking what can I do today to further the Fathers Kingdom?
Thanks again for your insight and lets do something for the Lords Kingdom today.
Fishing Eddie {Rod}