We are reminded by Paul that we have been bought with a price and within us there is great treasure. The servant who buried the talent thought it was enough to say to the master, “I hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.”67 He had convinced himself that all he was responsible for was what had been handed to him. The truth is that we are responsible for far more than what we have been given; we are responsible for what could have been done with all that we have been entrusted with.
