We serve an unfair God.

 

And here is what He says to prove it:

 

Matthew 20  1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.  3“About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5So they went.  6“He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’  7” ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.  “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’  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? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

 

If you did not follow this passage, as told by Jesus, then read it again…..I had to…..

 

And my first thought, in all honesty, was:

“So this guy who shows up at the end of the day and only works for one hour gets paid the SAME as everybody else?”

 

And the answer is:  YES.

 

And thank God it is.

 

One of the greatest lies of the enemy is that classic line:  “It is TOO LATE to go back now”…..

 

It is NEVER too late to go back now.

 

In fact, it is the perfect time to meditate on those three vital words:

 

GO

BACK

NOW

 

Your Lord is waiting for you.  He is waiting for you to come back to the very thing that you need to get everything fixed…..Him.

 

Go back to Him!

 

You see….you have someone very close to you who does something to sabotage just about every plan you have ever made…..and that person is YOU.

 

YOU are the problem.

And YOU are the very thing that prevents God from doing the very thing that you need.

Please know that I am not preaching at YOU….I am writing this to myself…….

 

And referring back to the story…..Jesus is making the same offer to all of us…….

 

Life is not fair until we realize that the we can very quickly find the man who shows up in the 11th hour and receives the full benefit of salvation and kingdom and forever.

And that’s because God would say:

It’s YOU.

 

Now come into the kingdom this very day…..and receive all that Jesus has for you.

 

I PROMISE…..it is ENOUGH.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtnE_e1LylY

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J