Redeemer Church Mauritius
Stewardship: Stewarding Our Talents - Doné van Eyk
We have all entrusted something of ours to someone else, believing that they are going to care for it as though it were their own. If you lend someone your car and they damage it through misuse, you would be very unhappy about that. If you pay for your child to go to university, but they spend their time drinking and partying and failing all their subjects, you would be very unhappy about that. We expect people to treat those privileges and those blessings with respect and with responsibility. The bible puts it like this in 1 Corinthians 4:2 – “Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” We often see our lives as a confusing mix of abilities and weaknesses, not realising that God has entrusted us with gifts and talents of real value. Scripture reminds us that our talents, whether leadership, creativity, serving, or hospitality, are not accidents. They are given by God’s grace, entrusted for His purposes. The question is not whether you have something to offer, but what you will do with what you’ve been given.
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Redeemer Church Mauritius
Mauritius
Sunday 9:30 AM
- Someone once asked me: “What if the one thing you’re waiting for God to do is the one thing God is waiting for you to do?”.
- God is waiting for us to use what he has already entrusted to us.
- We’ve all been given something: leadership, creativity, hospitality, organisation, mercy, generosity. But too often:
* We downplay our gifts because they don’t look like someone else’s.
* We hide them because we fear failure.
* We delay using them because we are comfortable and waiting for “perfect” conditions.
- Like the servant who buried his talent, we risk wasting what God gave us.
- Paul reminds us that the church is like a body with many different parts. Each part matters, each part has a role, and none of us is useless. You don’t have to be the “brain” to matter. You just need to faithfully do what you were designed to do. Your gift, no matter how ordinary it may seem, is essential.
- Gifts are not earned or created by us; they are given by God’s grace. That means we don’t own them; we steward them.
- Jesus’ parable of the talents shows us that God expects us to use what he entrusts to us. Two servants invested their master’s resources and saw them multiply. One servant, driven by fear, buried his gift. The master didn’t excuse him; he rebuked him.
- The lesson is clear: God doesn’t call us to hide our gifts in the ground. He calls us to put them to work. Faithfulness, not perfection, is what he desires.
- Identify it – Ask God and others: What have you put in my hand?
- Dedicate it – Offer it back to God as worship.
- Develop it – Learn, practice, and grow in the gift.
- Deploy it – Start using it now, not later.
Your gifts and talents are not accidents. They are God’s investment. Don’t bury them. Identify, dedicate, develop, and deploy what God has entrusted to you. It is part of responsible stewardship.
