Sunday, February 8, 2009

Do states go the Heaven

Matthew 20: 1-16
Parable of the Laborers. This a story about money, work, anxiety and grace. It holds out hope for Oklahoma if states go to heaven. In those days the family budget was balanced daily. If you had work, you had a denarius and if you had a denarius you and your family could eat. The landowner went out early and hired his workers and sent them inot the vineyard to work. At the sixth and ninth hour he did likewise. When evening came he called the laborers in and gave them there wages beginning with the last to the first. But when the first came, they supposed they would recieve more and they murmured. All were paid the same but the last worked the least! The landowner said "Friend I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?" "So the last will be first and the first last. For many are called but few are chosen." Oklahoma is last in about every category of state services, from health care to education and first in carceration. Oklahoma was last, no didn't even vote for Obama ao in this parable would the landowner help Oklahoma because it has done the least for it's citizens. Or would Obama help Oklahoma because it did nothing for him. The laborer who had work (and a denarius) all day had no anxiety, but the last had anxiety almost to the end. The laborer who worked all day made his and his family's way better because he did the right thing. The others waited around and hoped. Has Oklahoma govenment done the right thing for it's family. Don't think so. Don't think states get to heaven.

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