How a 2,000-Year-Old Lesson Reveals the #1 Rule of Growth in Business
In Matthew 25, Jesus told a story that might be the most important business lesson ever recorded.
A master was leaving on a long journey.
Before he left, he entrusted three of his servants with resources.
One received five talents of silver.
Another received two talents.
The last received one talent.
A talent was not a coin.
It was a lifetime’s worth of wages…a massive investment.
The master expected them to do something with it.
The servant with five talents went immediately to work.
He invested.
He traded.
He multiplied.
He turned five into ten.
The servant with two did the same.
He doubled what he had.
But the servant with one talent?
He dug a hole and buried it in the ground.
No action.
No risk.
No effort.
No return.
When the master returned, he praised the first two servants:
“Well done. You have been faithful with little.
I will put you in charge of much.”
But the one who buried his talent?
He lost the very thing he was afraid to lose.
Not because he failed…
but because he never tried.
💡 THE BUSINESS LESSON
The Bible teaches a truth modern entrepreneurs still ignore:
If you don’t use what you’ve been given, you lose what you could have gained.
The servants weren’t judged on how much they started with.
They were judged on what they did with it.
Today we call this:
• Return on investment
• Stewardship
• Skill multiplication
• Taking initiative
• Growth mindset
God never blessed the buried talent.
He blessed the applied talent.
🧠 THE NERDY TAKEAWAY
The “Five Talents Principle” teaches this:
Your next level is hidden inside your current level.
If you don’t maximize what you have, you never unlock what’s next.
What you already possess is enough to multiply:
Your idea.
Your network.
Your skills.
Your voice.
Your opportunities.
Don’t bury it.
Build it.
Because in God’s economy and in business,
faithfulness is not holding onto the seed.
Faithfulness is planting it.
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