Good & Faithful Servants

Periodically, I have heard people share their yearning for the Lord to look upon them when their lives on this earth are over and they stand before Him and say these words: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” They are referring to a well-known Bible story I read, studied, and heard preached for years before something dawned on me I had totally missed.

In the story, a lord gives talents (money) to his servants while he goes away on a trip only to return and discover several were “good and fai...