How We See is How We Live

Matthew 25:14-30

The pieces of the puzzle in today’s Gospel don’t seem to fit together unless we look at it in the context of the Kingdom of Heaven.

What is analogous to the talents in the parable, that God hands over to us? God has handed over to us His own Spirit.

The third slave in the parable sees God as harsh and punitive, and lives his life not in faith but in fear and mistrust, which causes him to bury his talent. How he saw was how he lived.

If we see God through the eyes of Jesus, we see Him as a loving God who gives and empowers.

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