“Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.”
The Comparison
This parable names the workers’ own honest complaint here, worth examining directly, made them equal unto us, this specific comparison worth holding as honest naming of a common, genuine grievance, worth recognizing this same complaint if it has characterized your own sense of unfair, comparative treatment.
Notice borne the burden and heat of the day, worth holding as this complaint’s own actual grounding, genuine, real labor performed, worth examining whether your own similar complaint has been grounded in this same, honest sense of genuinely earned, comparative merit that seems unfairly, equally treated.
This is worth applying against however much this exact complaint has characterized your own comparison, worth considering the master’s own response in this parable’s very next verses, is thine eye evil, because I am good, worth holding as needed challenge to this whole comparative framework itself.
Consider today whether this exact complaint, made them equal unto us, has characterized your own sense of comparative unfairness, and consider the master’s own challenging response, worth examining whether generosity toward others has ever, genuinely felt like unfairness toward your own, comparative merit.
Choose Contentment
- Consider whether this exact complaint has characterized your own sense of comparative treatment.
- Examine the master’s own challenging response, is thine eye evil, because I am good.
- Consider whether generosity toward others has felt like unfairness toward your own merit.
Prayer
Lord, forgive me when generosity toward others has felt like unfairness toward me. Let me release this comparative framework, trusting your own generous goodness. Amen.
Carry this today
Generosity toward others can feel like unfairness, worth examining this comparative framework.