13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. 14 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 15 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. 16 Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. 17 And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. 18 But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money. 19 After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’ 21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
22 He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’ 23 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ 24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’ 26 “But his lord answered and said 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. 27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. 28 Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. 29 ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”NKJV
God is a Living God. Jesus died on the Cross, but He rose again. This gives Him the right to draw Revocable Living Trusts when it comes to handing out His promises to us. This means that they are conditional to our obedience to Him, to His word, and commands for us. A living trust can be revocable because the person that writes it can change or terminate it.
It is called living trust because this person is still living, and it is called trust because it is a legal arrangement and the grantor of this trust appoints a manager. However, if the appointed person continues to fall short of his or her expectations, the grantor can then decide to entrust His assets and investments to be managed by another because He knows how costly it could be to allow mismanagement to continue.
God is the exact same way with us. Luke 12:48 says, For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required; and of him to whom men entrust much, they will require and demand all the more. AMP
In God’s economy, there are more multiplications than additions, so when he looks at the fruit of what He has entrusted to us, He looks for the multiplication, the profit, the turnover, the yield, the increase, or earnings. In other words, He invests in us so that His image and likeness of His Son can be revealed through us to others in the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) and in the works he has called us to do as we go to replenish the earth, multiply it and subdue it.
For this, He takes us to a process that leads us to our destinies in Him where our yielding to Him continually helps us increase in fruitful works which are the result of our relationship with Him. This way, we live doing as the Father does and saying as the Father says.
But whenever He does not see the good fruit of the character of Christ in the person He has invested in after periods of pruning and testing, guiding, and leading. Then He is left with having to take from the unfruitful person and give to another who has been faithful and yielded to His process to do His will and follow His ways no matter what they had to go through to multiply and increase what was given to them.
Luke 13:6-7 says, “6And He told them this parable: A certain man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it, but did not find [any]. 7So he said to the vinedresser, See here! For these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue also to use up the ground [to deplete the soil, intercept the sun, and take up room]?” AMP
That is why Jesus cursed the fig tree. It looked good and full of fruit from a distance, but looking up close there was no fruit. That is because the tree had signs of a rotten root and Jesus knew that its withering was imminent. Therefore, just like the above Scripture states, why should that tree be allowed to take up space that should be left for a another that will bear the necessary type of fruit because the soil was not the problem, the tree was. So at His word the tree withered up at once (Matthew 21:19).
Matthew 3:10 also says, “And already the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” AMP
This word is an admonishment to stop and take a look at the type of fruit we are bearing. Is God being glorified in us and through us or are we worth going again through the fire of testing so the wickedness and evil ways in us that we have refused to let go off can be removed so we can be aligned with His plan and purpose for us. He wants to use us effectively to advance His Kingdom and what we must reflect is the ways of God, not the ways of the world. By going to the necessary pruning, we will be able to yield better quality fruit.
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