WILL YOU WORK OR WILL YOU COMPLAIN?

WILL YOU WORK OR WILL YOU COMPLAIN?

BLOG HOST, 9-23-2010
HOST: MONTEZ PORTER
Matthew20


Look at the title that i have put on this posting. This is a very unique title and really says a lot about the passage that we're reading today. This passage really makes you think. In the story that was told, the man had hired a lot of people to work in his vine yard. Now think about what we as Christians do on a everyday bases. We are hired by God to work in His Vineyard. We are His workers that helps keep the news spreading. The men agreed to be paid a denarius. As time progressed, it was the eleventh hour and he seen that it was another group of people that didn't agree to be paid anything. The man asked them "'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'" They said "Because no one has hired us. The generous owner " said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.' This a very generous man. 8"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' 9"The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. 10So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 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.' 13"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 16"So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

What i'm trying to say is. think real hard about this passage. If you break it down, you will realized that we're the workers and the generous man is God. When we agree to something, we have to stick with it. As Christians, we agree that we will serve no one but God and will no turn on him no matter what. Yes we go through a lot of things but we have to trust that God will see us through everything everyday in every way possible.