Checking Sock Drawers

In the first century at the time of Christ a mina was worth about a quarter's worth of work (3 months).  It would be a few thousand dollars in our market today.  Not a bunch of money, but not money to sneeze at it.  To the common laborer a few thousand dollars would be a very nice blessing.  The inheritor (www.lifejournal.cc) of Luke 19's parable wanted to keep his money working while he went to claim his inheritance.  He did not put his money in one pot.  He split it between ten servants and asked them to invest.  Today that is called a diversified mutual fund.  Not a bad place to put your money  (...just don't do it today.  The bull and the bear are presently asleep or fading fast.)  When he returned, several had made money, some very good money.  Five or ten times the investment..(.I am looking for a servant like that).   However, one had just held onto the money.  He wanted to keep it safe, but in that he disobeyed his master.
The point of the story is not minas or what you do with them.  The point is:  what do you do with the Master's investment into you?  Christ left the earth through the ascension to do two things: prepare a place for us and to make intercession for us.  He has invested eternal life with all of its qualities into every soul that would admit their need for God and surrender their lives to His Lordship.  He has told us in a variety of ways to invest that in which God gave us.  He said that we are to be salt that is favoring our society.  We are supposed to cause a splash for His Glory.  He has told us to scatter seed.  Our responsibility is not the soil but the scattering of the seed.  Sling your testimony as far and as often as possible.  We are to be light--beam Jesus upon your world.  We are to be working the fields that are white unto harvest.  We are to be catching 'men' and watching God bless the catch.   We are to be beaming, shining, changing, sharing, producing, working, and referring the whole world for the cause of Christ to the life changing message of Christ.  We are simply to be investing what God has invested into us.  We are not to stop until He returns.  It is not so much how well the investing goes as much as it is doing something with what God has invested.   
The shame and the scam in the matter is that to many servants what God has invested in them, they have stored away.  They did a long time ago.  They did it so long ago that they forgot that what God gave them was not a ticket for eternal life, but an investment to be utilized, not in the end, but immediately. 
We read God's Word today and are reminded of the confidence God has placed in us.  It is not how much He has invested in us but what we have done with the investement.   Let's use today to be the day that we go to our spiritual sock drawers and pull out that  investment that God placed in us so long ago that we mistaken for just a gift.  Let's put it to work today and let it germinate until He comes!  May God open our eyes and doors and even windows of opportunities to put His investment at work today.   Have a God blessed and treasured day!