Even if you don't believe in yourself,
believe that all things are possible with God



I'm reminded once again

What's so amazing about grace?

Matthew 20:1-16-Parable of the labourers in the vineyard

In a contemporary Jewish version of this story, the workers hired late in the afternoon work so hard that the employer, impressed, decides to award them a full day's wages.

Not so in Jesus's version, which notes that the last crop of workers have been idly standing around in the marketplace, something only lazy, shiftless workers would do during harvest season. Moreover, they did nothing to distinguish themselves, and the other workers were shocked by the pay they received.

Jesus's story makes no economic sense, and that was His intent. He was giving a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day's wages. Grace is not about finishing first or last; it is about not counting. We receive grace as a gift from God, not as something we toil to earn.

Many Christians who study this parable identify with the employees who put in a full day's work, rather than the add-ons at the end of the day. We like to think of ourselves as responsible workers, and the employer's stange behaviour baffles us as it did the original hearers.

We risk missing the point: that God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirement for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.

Grace cannot be reduced to generally accepted accounting principles. In the bottom line realm of ungrace, some workers deserve more than others; in the realm of grace, the word 'deserve' does not even apply.

No matter what others do or what direction their lives may take,we must do what He asks us to do

You can't bring someone further than where you are.


Hmmm..
some food for thought