Inner Talent Stewardship

Matthew 25:24-27 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Matthew 25 in context

Scripture Focus

24Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Matthew 25:24-27

Biblical Context

The servant who received one talent hides his gift from fear and misunderstanding, while the master expects wise use of what is given. The parable measures accountability by how one cultivates and expresses what one has been given.

Neville's Inner Vision

Fear not, for the parable speaks to your inner economy. The servant who received one talent did not lack wealth; he lacked imagination. He called the master 'hard' and imagined scarcity: reaping where one has not sown, gathering where one has not strawed—that is the belief that life deprives and punishes. So he hid his gift in the soil of his mind, withdrawing energy from conscious action. But the law is exact: you reap according to the harvest of your consciousness. To invest is to acknowledge that your I AM supplies all and that you can let your talent circulate through life with confidence. The exchangers are the opportunities and relationships by which value returns when you act from assuredness, not fear. When you revise the thought of a harsh I AM and feel the reality of abundance now, your talent multiplies, and the master’s rebuke becomes a gentle correction: do not resist your own nature, but release it into expression. Judgment, then, is simply a mirror of your state; awaken to a richer consciousness and you will see the fortune you feared become reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Practice: close your eyes, declare 'I AM the master of my talent; I invest it now in life,' and feel the return as real, imagining the talent circulating through your days.

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