Are you an Unprofitable Servant.

Matthew 25:24-25

 ²⁴Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
 ²⁵And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

I used to feel sorry for the one who had the misfortune of only having one talent.  It is the same sorrow that I felt for people who make minimum wage or people with a lot of debt.  I had a "poor man's " pity.  When I read the parable of the talents I thought God was rather cruel to the one with one talent.  Years later, I went back and took another look at what the unprofitable servant said.  He said, in essence, "Because you were a hard man forcing me to give you something you did not work for, I hid the talent and give you it back."  It was the most ungrateful thing to do.  He decided to do nothing focusing on the owner rather than the seed the owner gave him.  We so often focus on many things except the seed given us.  We become the experts on what the president should do, but not ourselves.  When it comes to us, there are a million and one reasons why we don't profit.  We have expectations of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby and Bill Gates, but we aren't good stewards over what we have.  I remember reading a story about Flip Wilson.  His family members wanted money from him.  He agreed to pay for college educations.  He refused to just give them money because they asked.  He agreed to give them a seed.  It was up to them to make it profitable.