DAY THIRTY-THREE – Friday, April 8, 2022
Matthew 21:33-42
My reflection takes us back to the 10 Commandments. The tenants violated 2 of them. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not kill.
The owner was full of hope and forgiveness. Kept sending people over to his land to get his due bounty. They were all slaughtered. The outcome was always the same – loss.
Verse 42: God has set the foundation for The Kingdom of God. The tenants weren’t playing well in the Kingdom. In fact, they might have been getting in the way of the work of the Kingdom.
This story reminds me of the silos on farms and when there was a problem in the silo, more men jumped in to hopefully help. That did not happen – as in this parable – more loss.
I do know of a farmer who had died in the winter. His farm sold in the winter. In the springtime a fresh crop had grown on his land. The farmer who had planted the “cash crop” wished to harvest it as his own. The new owner said no, it was his to harvest and financially benefit from.
The moral of the story? Transparency. Make a contract. Perhaps this would have provided a better outcome for both the “Cash Crop” farmer and the landowner in the Parable of the Wicked Tenants.
Brenda Jones
Matthew 21:33-42
My reflection takes us back to the 10 Commandments. The tenants violated 2 of them. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not kill.
The owner was full of hope and forgiveness. Kept sending people over to his land to get his due bounty. They were all slaughtered. The outcome was always the same – loss.
Verse 42: God has set the foundation for The Kingdom of God. The tenants weren’t playing well in the Kingdom. In fact, they might have been getting in the way of the work of the Kingdom.
This story reminds me of the silos on farms and when there was a problem in the silo, more men jumped in to hopefully help. That did not happen – as in this parable – more loss.
I do know of a farmer who had died in the winter. His farm sold in the winter. In the springtime a fresh crop had grown on his land. The farmer who had planted the “cash crop” wished to harvest it as his own. The new owner said no, it was his to harvest and financially benefit from.
The moral of the story? Transparency. Make a contract. Perhaps this would have provided a better outcome for both the “Cash Crop” farmer and the landowner in the Parable of the Wicked Tenants.
Brenda Jones
