Matthew 25:25

Verse 25. I was afraid. I feared, lest by some accident thy talent would be lost if I put it out to trade, and that I should be severely punished by a hard master. I therefore kept it laid up safely, and hid it where it could not be lost. That is thine. There is what properly belongs to thee. There is the original talent that thou gavest me, and that is all that can be reasonably required. Observe here, (1.) that this expresses exactly the feelings of all sinners. God, in their view, is hard, cruel, unjust. (2.) All the excuses of sinners are excuses for indolence and sin, and to cheat themselves out of heaven.