One of my favorite contemporary Christian songs is "Your Grace is Enough" by Chris Tomlin. You can listen to it here. Much like the classic hymn, "Amazing Grace," the song is a song of praise for God reaching down to us in love in Christ. And that's all we really need. God's grace is enough to save us and guide us throughout our life on this earth.
The surprise in this parable is that the owner of the vineyard is so generous with his money to those who work fewer hours in the vineyard. Who really does that, pay a full day's wage to a worker hired for a couple hours late in the day? But that's precisely the point. God is amazingly generous with God's grace, providing it freely to all people, regardless of what one has or has not done in the past.
How God distributes God's grace is up to God. God is the owner, and can do so in accordance with God's will. All I know is that "God's grace is enough for me." Whatever measure of grace God has granted me, it's enough. In fact, it's more than enough. Thanks be to God!
It's so sad that we so easily get caught up in "fairness". If we would just concentrate on our own blessings and relationship with God, it wouldn't even occur to us to be anything but grateful not only for what he has given us, but to everyone else, also.
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