SCANDALOUS GRACE
Keywords 20:12
'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,'
they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the
work and the heat of the day.'
1. Those who think God is fair may dislike this
passage. While he is fair to those who came first, giving them what he
promised, he is seemingly unfair to those who came last by giving them the same
amount, a day’s wages.
2. God provides what we need. What makes life so
miserable is comparing to others, what they have or don’t have. Those who had come first would have been
perfectly fine if those who came last were given less. What made them really
angry was making them equal to those who did the right things and worked so
hard.
3. God blesses
those who simply show up, who live in the grace given freely to all. Hell is
when we go to heaven and complain about the people who we think shouldn’t be there.
Prayer Lord, you are merciful beyond our imagination. Help us
to simply enjoy it and not compare and complain.
One Word God is
generous
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