1 Chronicles 27:1; 1 Chronicles 27:22-34
Ch. 27 teaches us that side by side with stewards, soldiers are also needed. To preserve our treasures, it will perhaps be necessary for us to fight and we should be fit and ready for this.
Vv. 25-31 tell us that there were also other treasures, less noble than those of the holy place, but which had none the less to be carefully guarded. Let us take good account of all that the Lord has entrusted to us. Just as that lord who, when going away, entrusted talents to his servants, the Lord Jesus has given to each one of us certain goods or abilities to be used in profit for Himself (Matthew 25:14 . . .).
The particular subject here is labour in the fields. May those of our readers who live in the countryside not under-estimate the part that the Lord has given them. That which is entrusted to them is equally termed treasures, or "talents". It is not a matter of comparing them with those that others have received, but to use them faithfully. In the place where we have been sent, let us act in such a way that one day the Master may address us in these gracious words: "Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord" (Matthew 25:21).