Power = Responsibility
For my entire life, I’ve been a fan of superheroes, in particular, Super-Man, Wonder Woman, and Spiderman. I’m sure many of us have heard the line often attributed to Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben, “With great power comes great responsibility.” It’s a line I’ve often pondered, and I was surprised to learn that it has its roots in the Gospel of Luke and in the Gospel from Matthew.
The servant, who doesn’t take his master’s coin and multiply it, is chastised by the king. The man was given something and expected to increase its value, to make it useful to the king, to expand the king’s power and his kingdom. Instead, he kept it, stored it away, and gave it back to his master without any added value.
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