Yesterday as I travelled I had the opportunity to participate in road construction waiting lines...not too many....but some...
At one place, I was the first in line, which meant I had just missed the one before me and that I got to wait for awhile before the pilot car came back took the next line of cars...30 minutes...
As I listened to my book I had purchased, I watched the cars and trucks accumulate behind me...I had passed many of these vehicles over the last two hours and now here we were all in the same line waiting together for the pilot car...
The picture came to mind of one of the landowners that Jesus talked about in the New Testament...he hires men to work a whole day, then smaller and smaller parts of the day. At the end of the day, they receive the agreed upon wages. They All receive the same amount and the ones hired first felt that they should receive more as the later ones got the same....funny how that works....
For all my passing, I just got to be at the head of the construction line...we ended up there together...no special privileges or anything...same "wages"...
That is the way of salvation...we may do it early in life or later, but when all said and done, just because we may have received it earlier, salvation is salvation....the door is always open, waiting to be entered. Jesus is knocking ....he desires us all to receive Him no matter what or when...
Thank You For lines of construction, no special privileges ...better roads for us all...a way, the Way...to your freely given gift of salvation...
Matthew 20:1-16 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around.
He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’ “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’ “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.
So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.
When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
"But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go.
I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
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