August 25th -- Matthew 20:1-19
Read the passage, please!
The last will be first and the first will be last. This isn't a literal listing, but rather a general picture. I think this is Jesus' way of warning against becoming arrogant because you may have been a follower of God your whole life, while another may have only accepted Him with their dying breath. Jesus is saying that it doesn't matter who comes into relationship with God first, or who has been in one longest - we are all equal in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whether we serve in God's "fields" for a long or short time, and whether we bring in many or little "crop", we will all be given "a full day's wages". By this I mean that whether we have intentionally served God for years or minutes and whether we have brought many or only one or even none to find Him, He will treat us all the same and give us all the same, equal love and eternity. So don't become jealous - God is the kind landowner, and we should be thankful to get what we do from Him.
God bless! Shalom!
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