Full Wages

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?  Matthew 20:15

We often get hit with the wages of sin thing, but there is another wage paid in this parable from our Lord Jesus, work wages. You Bible scholars may recognize right away our verse for today from the tale of the landowner who went back at times through the work day and hired more workers even unto the last hour.  The good news for us in this is that the last-hour workers were paid the same as those who committed to work early in the day. We can look at this in light of history, those who join the work of the kingdom of Heaven in the last days can receive the same reward as those who followed Jesus in the first century with Peter and the gang. We can also look in terms of a lifetime, in that we who did not put our hands to the plow at a young age will be paid the same as those who, like John the Baptist, recognized their Savior even from before birth. And there is even the Israelites and Gentiles in the first-last thing. 

This little verse from that parable? Be sure that we do not judge the good works of our Lord as somehow unfair due to an expectation we cooked up all by ourselves. 

Have a wonderful new day in Christ the Lord!

Bucky