Laborers in the Vineyard

It's an interesting thought in this story? Are those who work longer and harder entitled to more than those who worked for a short time? Who is to decide what is fair payment for their work. It seems very communistic, but I will stand by the fact that the Kingdom of God is most likely communistic. Unfortunately we just don't live there yet.

In this story, the man who owns a field hires day laborers throughout the day. The first batch agree to work for a typical day's wage. Every hour or so he hires more and doesn't really set a wage with them. At the end of the day, he pays them. He gives those who had only worked an hour as much as those who had worked all day. The point is that we Christ comes at the end of time, it doesn't matter how long you have been working in the harvest, you get the same wage: eternal life. We all agreed to give everything to God for that price. Just because I've been at it for 50, 60, 90 years doesn't mean I'm entitled to more than someone who just started. It's hard for me to imagine begrudging God because newer Christians get equal payment, but I know enough about people to understand how some could think that way. But Jesus is like a broken record when He says the last shall become first and the first shall become last. He says that, or some facsimile of that, over and over and over. I think I read it like 5 times this morning alone in these 2 chapters of Matthew. P.S 5 is like my favorite exaggeration. When I say 5, I probably mean 2 or 3. Either way you slice it, God loves the humble. We are not supposed to by haughty Christians who think they deserve more for whatever reason.

In other news, today was a day that pushed me far to my limit. I don't know what I'm doing, and I feel quite helpless about my work. I feel like I need a jumpstart or some inspiration. This is not what I had in mind when I signed up, and I have a feeling that God has something else in store too. Judging by how I feel, I'm pretty sure what He wants is so different from what I want, that we have to go through this awkward period.

GroOoss.