God’s blessings in your life is not limited by His willingness but by your capacity to receive. Capacity according to the English Dictionary is the measure of the amount that can be held or contained by something. The maximum amount of output or productivity. Capacity is the ability to perform a given task.
The parable of the Kingdom in Matt25vs14-28 will give us light along this path. There was a master who gave loan to his servants to invest for him while he was away on a journey. To one he gave $5000, to another $2000, and $1000 to the last. This loans represent how much of breakthrough individual could attain. It speaks of levels of influence, a range to cover. The first question to ask is why not give them all equal portion? The scripture says “dividing it in proportion to their ABILITY”.
Now, the scripture made us to understand the man with $5000 doubled the money before the return of their master, likewise the man with $2000. He also doubled the master’s money. The last man with the smallest, $1000 failed to double the master’s money. We don’t know their names, let’s just tag each man according to the money given them. I am much more concerned here about Mr. $1000.
I have heard many times this man been talked about as an unfortunate one who failed to double the masters money. I think this man was in a dilemma. It wasn’t his fault so to say. He didn’t have the capacity and he didn’t want to fail the master. He was then in the middle and had to settle for one. He was filled with fear because he never had an understanding of the master’s plan. All he thought was that the master was wicked and could reap where he didn’t sow. The truth is that $1000 couldn’t come out straight. He just didn’t have the capacity. It isn’t about strength, it’s about how much he knew, and his knowledge was limited.
I must let you know $1000 made effort not to disappoint the master, but was not to understanding. He left his house, dug a hole, and buried the money. Above all, became a security guard in charge of the area to ensure there was no form of external encroachment. He was trying to please the master. He avoided the risk of trading with the money and running into a loss, of which he thought will be a failure for him on the part of the master. The fear of failure made him hid the money. In clear terms, his dilemma was a product of capacity. He didn’t have the depth to reproduce, he couldn’t handle situation. He failed to enjoy the grace made available, he only understood works.
It’s not about how much you wish or work, He doesn’t waste his resources. Situations don’t answer to strength, they do to knowledge. It is capacity that determines speed not experience. Can you imagine how a hefty man tries to control the traffic and the people challenges and defile his command, only for a short and fragile looking personality on a police uniform to raise his hands and the whole city responds to him? One of the two has got capacity.
Your capacity is directly proportional to the level at which you can believe God. Capacity increases at the rate of faith increase. How do you increase your faith? Knowledge.
“Yet faith comes from listening to this Good News- the Good News about Christ.”Rom10v17
It’s quite a simple equation. Listening to the word = Faith= Capacity. This will save you finding yourself in $1000 dilemma. It produces result.
Remember our word for the year, stay quiet. Listen. Build capacity. Your capacity is the maximum at which He can release. Remember the wife of the seminary student in 2King4? Until the empty jar in the house finished, the oil never stopped flowing. The amount of space she had was what God filled. Her capacity was the limit of God’s provision.
As you go this week, open up yourself more to discover the heritage in His word for you. Increase your capacity to reduce any form of dilemma.
Be Innovated.
Olufemi Ibitoye
@toyeolufemi
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