Jesus loves a hussla'

In biblestudy this week, we read a really interesting parable. The full parable is found in Luke 19. In summary the story is about a powerful guy who leaves for a few months so that he could be made king. While he was gone, he trusted his money to his servants. He gave one servant $100,000, one $50,000 and the last one $10,000. When he came back he found that the first two servants had doubled their money but the last one was worried about losing the money and simply hid it because he knew that the man was a hard ass and that he'd be in some major hot water if he lost the money.

We were thinking of this parable. In order to double someone's investment in a short amount of time you have to be out there really hussling. Looking for opportunities, taking risks, putting it into long shots and at the same time you have to have a great degree of discernment to know what's going to pay off in the long run.

When we tried applying this to faith we thought of the guy who hid the money as someone who believes in God but doesn't share it with anyone. Doesn't go to church. Doesn't talk about it with friends or family. Doesn't do anything with it. In this way, their faith is never stretched and it never grows. The easy thing to do is at least find a few people to share your faith walk with who are close to you. This is a safe investment. It grows slowly but there is little risk involved.

But the parables urge us to be husslers. To always have our eyes open. To always be willing to take risks and open our ideas about faith up to those around us who might challenge them. To share them with strangers. Jesus loves him a hussler.