Last Friday
the Reverend Billy Graham was laid to rest. An evangelist for over eight
decades, I have confidence this man of God will be great in the kingdom of
heaven. However, some of us struggle with the idea that anyone who has been a
Christian for only a year is worth as much to God as the esteemed Billy Graham.
In the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard Jesus said, “For the kingdom of
heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to
work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for
the day and sent them into his vineyard.” On the third, sixth, ninth and
eleventh hour the landowner did the same thing and hired more men. At the end
of the day some men grumbled when they learned all the men hired were paid the
same wage, one denarius. The landowner said to them, “Friend, I am not being
unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take
your pay and go. I want to give the man 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.” (Matt 20:1, 13-16 NIV).
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