Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Devotional For

February 7

      "Faithful in that which is least" (Luke xvi. 10).
      
      The man that missed his opportunity and met the doom of the faithless servant was not the man with five talents, or the man with two, but the man who had only one. The people who are in danger of missing life's great meaning are the people of ordinary capacity and opportunity, and who say to themselves, "There is so little I can do that I will not try to do anything." One of the finest windows in Europe was made from the remnants an apprentice boy collected from the cuttings of his master's great work. The sweepings of the British mint are worth millions. The little pivots on which the works of your watch turn are so important that they are actually made of jewels. And so God places a solemn value and responsibility on the humble workers, the people that try to hide behind their insignificance the trifling opportunities and the single talents; and our littleness will not excuse us in the reckoning day.
      
      "Talk not of talents, what hast thou to do?
          Thou hast sufficient, whether five or two.
      Talk not of talents; is thy duty done?
          This brings the blessing whether ten or one."