Big Heart

Matthew 20:1-16 The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

Matthew 20:7" 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'”

From the start when Jesus first taught, His thinking has always been unconventional, challenging our way of seeing things. All of us know when we work, we should be paid our due wages. Why should those who do not perform get the same pay or even be paid first? We reward those who do well. It’s all based on performance, we have to earn it.

But God’s heart has always been with the marginalised - the last in the society, those whom nobody wants. Perhaps they are old, weak, sick, handicapped, of lower intelligence, the prostitutes, the scums, the aliens, the poor, the humble. In the parable, somehow, no one would want to hire them and they were loitering, maybe waiting for a job to feed their family.

He said "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3). "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." (Mat 20:16).

What a big heart, one full of grace and compassion. Once when I watched an episode of American Idol’s charity programme, a man said “the one who stands tallest is the one who stoop low to help others”

Prayer: Dear Lord, I thank you for your big heart, one full of grace and compassion. May we remember the poor around us, in Jesus name, amen.