REFLECTION The basic thought of the Gospel reading is also in the - TopicsExpress



          

REFLECTION The basic thought of the Gospel reading is also in the Isaiah passage: “My thoughts are not your thoughts.” Try as one will, it is impossible to find a way to justify the payment of the workers in the vineyard. It could hardly be said to be fair. Yes, the owner is generous to the last comers, but why is he not generous to the others as well? It is simply that there is no reckoning up deserts when man meets God. Jesus by his emphasis on love, taught us that in love there is no calculation of duties, rights and obligations; there is only an open-handed giving without counting the cost, and a grateful receiving. We can never say that we have earned our salvation, or anything from God, but can only stand suppliant before him. The latest workers in the vine-yard have not earned what the owner gives them, and the mistake of their envious colleagues is to think that they can deserve well of the owner.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:18:27 +0000

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