Doing It Wrong

But he answered one of them and said, "Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?" Matthew 20:13

As the title of elderly becomes more my own, I seem to do more things wrong. Such as the time I reached to brush a few crumbs off my front with one hand and whacked the plate full of crumbs in my other hand to the floor. Truly the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing, but I think Jesus had something else in mind when He said that. When Jesus told the parable of the laborers and their pay, He wasn't speaking of my elderly fumbling either. This parable tells of some workers having a scale of right and wrong, and then placing their expectations on Him. The boss in the parable didn't go for that, and he showed to the disgruntled expectation-ers that he was not working by their knowledge of good and evil.

As one born later in the work day, I'm glad that we can work for full pay in the kingdom of God!

Bucky