The Unprofitable Servant
DAILY DEVOTIONAL – March 12, 2025
By David Wilkerson
In the Bible, the unprofitable servant is the one who hid his talent. He became too lazy to invest his life and time in God’s interests. This man came to God’s house once a week to maintain a semblance of religion.
Here is what the Lord will say of haphazard, halfhearted service to him:
“You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest… Cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 25:26-27, 30, NKJV).
What weeping and wailing there will be when the unprofitable servant’s life is examined. God will show the world how much time and effort he wasted making money, seeking personal security, building up bank accounts, fretting, ignoring family, forgetting God, and forsaking the assembly of believers.
On that day, God will bring forth the record of every neglected church meeting and every lazy and self-centered activity. Before this servant’s eyes, everything he spent his lifetime accumulating will appear: houses, cars, furnishings, boats, clothes, jewelry, stocks, and bonds.
A spark from Christ’s eye will ignite everything like a hydrogen meltdown. An angel will be standing before him, holding a mound of dust. The Lord will turn to the unprofitable one, saying, “This is what your lifetime amounted to. I needed you and called you, but you neglected me. You gave me so little of your time until, finally, you pushed me out of your life completely. You wasted your life for a handful of dust. You were warned that it would all burn as grass in an oven!”
Oh, beloved, what regret there will be on that day for the one who has no time for God.
Attending the obligatory Sunday morning service is not profitable if we do not have a heart for God. Remember,
“Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with the whole heart!” (Psalm 119:2).
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