Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Devotion - Tuesday, September 12

The parable in Mark 12 exposes the treatment given to God's servants.  This is the story of the man who planted a vineyard, and lent it out to tenants.  When he sends servants to collect his share of the harvest, they are first turned away, then beaten, and finally some are murdered.

The owner of the vineyard decides to send his son.  The son is killed.

Many things can be said of God, but this parable says something too important to be overlooked.  God is patient and unwilling to see his "tenants" as the cruel and selfish persons they can sometimes be.  God continues to hope for the best; God expects the best.  Even when those expectations prove to be naive.  God continues to make the sacrifice sufficient to reclaiming and restoring.

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