{"id":544,"date":"2014-11-16T22:32:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=544"},"modified":"2014-11-17T02:45:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:45:18","slug":"nov-16-the-4th-servant-in-the-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Nov 16 – The “4th Servant” in the Parable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today in church our pastor preached on the parable of the talents.\u00a0 In that parable there is a right master who leaves 3 servants in charge of property and wealth and later returns to see how much each has earned for him.\u00a0 Two of the servants work hard and produce income for the master.\u00a0 The 3rd<\/sup> buries the wealth in the ground so when the master returns he has exactly what he had when he left.\u00a0 Our pastor asked to consider how we feel the master would treat the imaginary 4th<\/sup> servant.\u00a0 This servant invested all the resources in the stock market and lost everything.<\/p>\n

I was really surprised by the proposal of the 4th<\/sup> servant and how he handled the resources entrusted to him.\u00a0 What the illustration opened up to me is that in many situations there are people involved who we do not think about.\u00a0 We don\u2019t consider their presence or their perspective on what is happening in the situation.\u00a0 In my work with families I often find out during a conversation that there is someone else in the family who is also hurting and who needs prayer.\u00a0 One way I find this out is by asking before pray, \u201cIs there anything else we need to pray for besides your health?\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Often I find out the family has another member who is much more ill than the patient I am visiting.\u00a0 Families are always pleased that I think to ask if there is more we should pray for when I am with them.\u00a0 My learning from these situations that was prompted by the sermon is: Just because we don\u2019t see a sign of a need does not mean it does not exist.<\/strong>\u00a0 I hope to be even more effective in seeking out these needs and help people cope with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in church our pastor preached on the parable of the talents.\u00a0 In that parable there is a right master who leaves 3 servants in charge of property and wealth and later returns to see how much each has earned for him.\u00a0 Two of the servants work hard and produce income for the master.\u00a0 The … Continue reading Nov 16 – The “4th Servant” in the Parable<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}