At bible study this week, we read the parable of the vineyard... the basic plot is that a man owns a vineyard and has tenants. He sends people to go collect some of the harvest and the tenants beat them up. Finally he decides to send his son cause he thinks the tenants will respect him. But instead they kill him because they think that if he's gone they will get the property.
Our initial discussion was about how Jesus told this parable to describe Israel and predict his death. It seemed pretty straight forward. But then we started thinking about the rights of tenants. These tenants felt that they had a right to decide how things would work on the property. They used violence to assert what they felt was their right. And their minds got twisted. Somehow they felt that they were entitled to ownership.
Applying this to our own faith walks we discovered that sometimes we act like this toward God. When we work hard on something and put ourselves into it, we assume that it is ours and we get really upset when God intervenes and changes things. We assume we have rights.....
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