Неделя шестнадцатая по Пятидесятнице

(2 Cor. 6, 1–10; Matt. 25, 14–30) The parable of the talents gives the idea that life is a time of bargaining. It means that we must hurry to take advantage of this time, just as at a bargain everyone rushes to bargain for what they can. Even if someone brought only bast shoes or bast, he does not sit idly by, but manages to invite buyers to sell his own and then buy what he needs. Of those who have received life from the Lord, no one can say that he does not have a single talent; Everyone has something, and more than one thing: everyone, therefore, has something to trade and make a profit. Don’t look around and don’t consider what others have received, but take a good look at yourself and more precisely determine what you have and what you can acquire with what you have, and then act according to this plan without laziness. At the trial they will not ask why you did not acquire ten talents when you had only one, and they will not even ask why you acquired only one with your one talent, but they will say: what did you acquire - a talent, half a talent or a tenth of it? And the reward will not be according to what you received, but according to what you acquired. It will be impossible to justify anything - neither ignorance, nor poverty, nor lack of education. When this is not given and there will be no demand for it. But you had arms and legs, tell me, they will ask what you acquired with them? Was there a language that they acquired? This is how the inequalities of earthly conditions are equalized at God’s judgment. You might be interested in: