When you grow up, more or less you have to be confident on something in order to build your reputation. Success at work, academic, family background and personal fortune would lead people boasting about himself. So smart, so skillful, so fit, so pretty and so rich…

It was time near Easter, and I did my confession, and had a thought about Proud which father has explained. Surely proud is sinful especially you compare your possession with people that do not own. There was a parable about Talents from the Gospels. (Matthew 25:14-30) Very interestingly, “Talent” (塔冷通), as noted in Bible, was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer. (like if one’s monthly wage is 20K, we are talking about 5M here.)

A talent, in Jesus time is some handsome amount of money. Then in current day, though it probably does not worth that much, however, the parable is even more obvious for us. We all have some talents, sports, languages, logical thoughts etc. Even something inherited from family like wealth and appearance and experience are all something given by God. Or I put it in Jesus terms, the master has given his servants the talents according to servants ability and settle accounts with them after the master returns.

All Talents are given by God, for each person; hence we do not need to be proud of anything that you do better than others. However, we have to bear in mind that when the Lord returns, we should show him how we made use of the Talents. I was thinking, at the end of the day, all Talents will be returned, and those who you look down upon will have the talents you are so proud that only you have. As that day will surely come, why don’t we invest our talent by sharing it with others and let those who haven’t got now be joyful?

I am not sure how best I could do that, however in one occasion, I do know I am doing it quite well. That’s on football field. To play happily with people together with different skills and level is always my most enjoyable moment in life. :) Hope you will realize your talent, and never be proud but make good use of it in your life.