Wednesday, 8/19/15
In today’s parable Jesus compares all of us to workers
called to work in his harvest field. Some of us get to working early in the
day, some of us later on. He pictures those later ones as having idled away
their time at useless activities. If we are not working in his harvest field,
whatever else we have been doing as useless.
In our school we had a seventh grade girl who differed with
Jesus on that point. That girl raised her hand, and said, “I don’t want the
Church or anyone else telling me how to live my life. It’s my life to use in
any way I like.”
If she follows up on that, she will join a good number of
like-minded people. She will join them in jail. That little girl was never able
make it on her own. Her parents made her bottle just warm enough. They changed
her diapers then kept her well clothed, they paid for her education.
Hopefully, short of paying for her selfish views, that girl
will come to agree with what Paul said in Romans, 14:7. “No one lives as his
own master, no one dies as his own master. While we live we are responsible to
the Lord; when we die, we will die as his servants. Both in life and in death
we are the Lord’s.
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