Right Rewards

The parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20) has many lessons to teach. Pastor taught us an important lesson from this parable the other day.

Out of the many vital lessons he had to teach I liked this particular one;
He said that 'grapes' required to be harvested as soon as they ripen otherwise they would fall on the ground and the harvest would go waste. The owner of the vineyard did not want this to happen, so he was ready to employ extra labour to complete the task as fast as possible. Pastor wanted us to understand the need for workers in the kingdom, because otherwise the yield would go waste.

There were parallel thoughts in my heart. The workers the master employed in the early hours clearly had their wage agreed upon, before they can began to work. But the others who were standing in the marketplace doing nothing, just trusted the master that He would pay them justly. And they completed their task faithfully. The master gave them the a denarius which was the same wage he paid to the earliest workers.

Sometimes, God calls us to do something when we are in our own busy life doing nothing for God. We are not sure,we feel out of place but we just trust God and begin to work. All throughout we are not sure of what we are going to be rewarded with, but we go on. The single driving force is our love for God's kingdom and the trust on God.

If this is our case today, then.. This parable reinstates that God is just and He will rewards us justly and abundantly in the right time. The reward is not according to the calling but according to our faithfulness to the calling.

Matthew 20:4-5
He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went.

1Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

1Corinthians 1:25-27
Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.