Matthew 25:18 · World English Bible
Matthew 25:18 Meaning But He Who Received the One Talent
But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
What does Matthew 25:18 mean?
The buried coin is the single spark of inner life a person is given and then covers over with the dense concerns of the body. To dig in the earth is to sink one's whole attention into the flesh and its dirt-bound cares, hollowing out a hiding place where the light will not be spent or grown.
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The buried coin is the single spark of inner life a person is given and then covers over with the dense concerns of the body. To dig in the earth is to sink one's whole attention into the flesh and its dirt-bound cares, hollowing out a hiding place where the light will not be spent or grown. Fear of loss becomes the very act that wastes it.
The talent is capital meant to circulate and increase through use, and the one who owns least is often quickest to entomb it. Kept underground in the physical nature, the gift earns nothing and stays lifeless from disuse.
Earth: the physical body and its heavy ground-level concerns, where light gets buried Money: the portion of inner spiritual capital given to each person to invest and grow
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Live Matthew 25:18 today
- Do the thing you have been protecting from failure. Send the draft, book the class, make the call, in the unfinished state it is in, because keeping it safe is the same as never having it.
- Share something you have been quietly sitting on, the idea, the skill, the offer of help. It costs you almost nothing and it is worth nothing at all while it stays in the drawer.
- When fear says wait until you are more ready, give yourself ten minutes and start badly. Buried time looks careful from the inside and is just time gone.
What am I keeping safe by keeping it unused?
The same truth in other traditions
Bhagavad Gita 2
Acting out of fear of loss is itself the loss. The grip that tries to protect a thing is what keeps it from ever living.
Zen
A bucket of water saved and sealed goes stale, while the same water poured through a channel stays clean. What is held still begins to rot.
Tao Te Ching 44
The one who clutches most tightly is the one who loses most. Hoarding looks like safety and works like slow ruin.
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