“Parable of the Talents,” A.N. (Andrey) Mironov (2013)
(Wikimedia Commons)
Compare Matthew 25:14-30; Mark 13:34
We’re more familiar with this story as the “parable of the talents” (in Matthew) than as the “parable of the pounds.”
But the point is the same in both accounts.
The concept of stewardship is essential, in my view, to a proper understanding of the Plan of Salvation. We’re entrusted with gifts, resources, talents (in the modern sense), opportunities, and so forth, in order to see what we’ll do with them, and how we’ll use them.
Simply sitting on them, though, isn’t an option.
If we behave righteously and responsibly with regard to the things temporarily given to us here for our care — including our families — we’ll be permitted to keep them (or will be given their superior equivalent, in the case of purely this-worldly items) in the celestial world.
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