A PARABLE AND ITS TEACHINGS
Start living your life! That’s why you’re here anyway…you shouldn’t wait for tomorrow. You do not own it. I’m not a Bible scholar, but one story of the Bible always ring in my head…the story of the master who gave his three servants some coins. One servant was given 5, the other; 2, the other; 1 (or so I think). The servant with 5 coins traded with it and made an extra 5. Same with the one with 2 coins…but the servant that was given 1 coin went out to bury it. On the day the Master returned, he demanded to know how his servants dealt with their coins. They all gave account of their coins. The Master was proud of the first servant who made an extra 5 coins and he vehemently rebuked the last servant who got 1 coin but decided to bury it. This story is enlightening on many grounds. And like we know, God is God and we cannot question him. But in my quiet time, whenever I think of this teaching, there are so many questions going through my head. I wonder why each of the servants were...