INTEREST
Today's reading: Exodus 35:30-37:29, Matthew 25:14-30, Psalm 35:1-8

"Well, you should at least have put my money in the bank so I could have some interest." Matthew 25:27 NLT

This same account is what we touched on in our Sunday School class this last week.

The question was asked, Which of the three servant do you think you are more like?

At times, I truly believe we could be any one of them.

The go-getter.

The do-the-very-best-I-can.

And the bury-er. The sitter. The one who sits out because they are SO desperately afraid I will mess things up for God.

'Mess things up for God'--what a funny thought!

As if I could. That's assuming I would have within my whole being the ability to do such powerful things. It's also going on the assumption that what God has set in order some un-schooled gal from southern Illinois can un-do. It is also me thinking, wrongly thinking, that I know better.

Case in point: my lack of evangelistic outreaches.

I don't mention God often in conversations with strangers. I'm afraid I won't know what to say. Might offend them. Would turn them off God completely when they see/hear me screw up. Won't have the answers if they have follow-up questions. Might look weirder than I actually am.

I'm called to do it, but I don't. I'm commanded to do it, but I don't. I have mountains of reasons to do it, but I don't.

And God doesn't earn interest.

No, not interest, like the small percentage of money added to a large sum of money in a bank, but interest--as in something that arouses attention.

I am keeping God from earning the interest of others when I don't mention Him.

And I am keeping Him from those who need Him.