PRAYER PAUSE (This
will not appear tomorrow, Thursday: I will be travelling),
Wednesday 23 August 2017
DOING WHAT
IS RIGHT
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Why be envious because I do what is
right?” (Matthew 20:1-16)
Reflection. The parable of the labourers in the vineyard,
where the owner pays those who come at the 11th hour the same as those
who had worked through the heat of the day, has the powewrr to shock us. It is
unjust, we say. Well, maybe it would not stand up in a modern court of
arbitration but Jesus is intending to unsettle us. In the new age, in the
kingdom of God, the landless day labourer will receive enough to feed his
family. It is “right and just” that he should. Historical events have deprived
him of his means of livelihood. But in the kingdom of God that is breakinginto
the world with Jesus, he will not go short.
Prayer. Lord, help us to put your justice
before our own. Aman.
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