A story was told of an elderly man lying in bed alone in the final
days of his life. He awakens to see a large group of people around his bed. Their
faces are loving but sad. Confused, the old man smiles weakly and whispers, “You
must be my childhood friends, and you have come to say goodbye? I am so
grateful.”
Moving closer, the tallest and the most built of them grasps the old
man’s hand and replies, “Yes, we are your best and oldest friends, but long ago
you abandoned us. For we are the unfulfilled promises of your youth. We are the
unrealized hopes, dreams and plans that you once felt deeply in your heart, but
never pursued.”
“We are the unique talents that you never refined, the special gifts
you never discovered. Old friend, we have not come to comfort you, but to die
with you.”
Someone said that the richest place in life is the cemetery, because
there lies books that were never written, songs that were never recorded,
inventions that were never done etc.
Friends, to dream is cheap, to work the dream is work. Some of us are
good talkers but never good doers.
Friend, you have something great inside of you. There are many
wonderful things that might never get done if you do not do them. Do not rid
the world of the greatness that is inside of you. Do not add to the richness of
the cemetery.
A gift is never a gift until given away. Fulfill your gift. Give it
away by realizing it. What you get in life is a product of how you use the
talents and gifts given unto you by God.
The servant in the parable of the talent in Matthew 25 was rid of his
talent because he refused to trade with it. He refused to do something with it.
For every talent and ability unused, you shall account for them in heaven.
You shall not be useless in Jesus Name. Amen!
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