Thank you. As Jesus made his way to Jerusalem, there was a growing crowd that expected they might see the kingdom of God appearing imminently.

To correct their thinking, Jesus told the parable of the 10 minas. And today on Truth

for Life, Alistairbeg walks us through this parable in Luke chapter 19.

Am I living significantly? Do I even know what it would be to live significantly?

Now poets throughout the 20th century have seized on this essential question because it is good

for business. It finds an identifying reverberation in the hearts of the listeners.

That's why the pop group could sing,

What am I living for?

Two-roomed apartment on the second floor?

Or, what am I living for?

A pint of beer and the girl next door.

A more mature audience began to sing along with, what are you doing the rest of your life? Or, what's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? Am I living a significant life? Am I living life with significance?

The question is not, am I busy? For a congregation like this is by and large full of busy people,

but busyness may actually simply be a cover-up for the fact that we feel ourselves at the very core of our being

to be less than significant in what we're doing with our time and what we're giving ourselves to.

It's not unusual to find that individuals like ourselves, or perhaps even if we're honest,

ourselves, to find that we don't know where we're going, we don't know what we're doing,

that quite honestly we have nothing important, nothing big enough for which to live.

Looking into the future, we understand this cynical quip of Woody Allen.

The future isn't what it used to be.

And some of us have a sneaking suspicion that he has said something really significant when

he says that.

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