Matthew 20: 1-16 – God Doesn’t Play Fair
We each have entered into a contract with God. I have my terms and you have yours. Why do I feel I have to compare? But when I find out you have more than I do as compensation, I get all crazy and blame God for not being fair. But God doesn’t play fair; if He did, we’d all be cooling our heels in the pit of fire. God has the right to spend His resources as He wishes. This is a hard concept for my culture to understand.
“Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?” we ask. “No, you don’t!” We are envious and our eyes swing back and forth in a frenzy because God has sliced the pie into irregular sized pieces. What I have is enough for me, but you got a bigger piece and I’m mad about that. I should just eat my own pie and be satisfied. But my envy has poisoned it and I complain against God’s generous hand.
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