Its interesting that this exchange with the crowds who were present with Jesus... and His own disciples had come to the point where Jesus was going to go away ...He was going to go to the cross so that at some point before in this process they were going to face a major cross roads. Because Christ would no longer be available to them in this relationship of following Him around to witness all the healing and the teaching that was more than any man could compare to on this earth.

In a sense Christ was preparing His real disciples for what was coming in them having to face that He was going to die. Then He would ascend to the Father and they would be given a power and a confidence that was so personally affecting that it would transcend there relationship to Christ while He they were following Him around.  So that the parable of the talents included this mystery .. .that is their lack of understanding as to the nature of their own ability to use the gifts and the talents that Christ given them ... but at this point that reality only sunk them deeper into the dread of having to explain how these talents would be used with the level of confidence that they themselves experienced in Christ earthly sojourn and this infusion of power to come with Christ baptizing them with the Holy Spirit.  This is the way of faith.

 We are always confronted with our own weakness when we begin to compare ourselves with the demands upon us in being the means by which God works in this world. On the one hand this is how we look at our relationship to Christ as being an experience of grace in which we predominately find Him to be easy as to all of these burdens ... our weaknesses... our sins.. our tendencies to being dull and lethargic in our attitudes toward these things. And then we come to a realization that all of this is too big for us. That weight of the law works to drive us to Christ... not necessarily by moving us to come to Him but helping us see the enormous and impossible road we are on if we were under the laws condemning power!! So that the real power is in finding that we have no where else to go when we are brought to a season of having this sort of scourge upon us that is we experience an inner struggle that points us to feel how much we fail in all of this.

When we are brought low we are not like the world where we would turn and leave for good. I mean we do not turn as to  accuse Christ of al of the troubles and then reject Him before men. We may act like we have been damaged beyond repair and we may for a season go our own way and talk as if we have left that way but He will bring us through that deep trial and give us a new hope in the coming of His Spirit.
This is why the way of grace has that healing effect upon our sorrowful spirit. We feel the condemning power of the law but we do not answer it by our own power to face ourselves. Its not that we let go but its that we in our lowness find in Christ the secret power  that begins to blossom in us that will eventual works its effect in us to be that by which we cannot live without.  I mean we may spend many yrs being in the dread of this worlds sorrow ...feeling the deterministic influences of the pain of slander and rejection, but we will have this very small window of grace to continue on ... that faith that causes us to feel our own sins and yet to cast ourselves on Christ to uphold what little we experience of His spiritual illuminations. But He will bring us through and His answer may not seem logical to even those who would be the most spiritual in our world... but Christ will work to bring us through in His way if we keep casting ourselves on Him in finding that He is below our most lowest times. For where else can we go?