8.17.23 - Matthew 20:1-2
Equity focuses on abundance, there is enough to go around. What's one way you might trade a desire for fairness for a desire for equity today?
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Ah the age old need for fairness.
Where did the lesson on equal distribution of supplies first come to you? As a sibling learning to share in your home; or as you first experimented as an employee at your day job?
This gospel parable gets right to the need to be right.
How could the landowner possibly find it fair to pay every single person he hired the same “full days wages”?
Because it had nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with abundance and generosity.
Human envy is one of the biggest contentious responses to God’s math. God’s math has little to do with numbers and fairness and everything to do with demonstrating there will always be more than what we need at the end of a hard day’s labor.
Where do you sense envy at work in your life right now?
Are you willing and able to trust God’s abundant generosity today? How might you embody that?
--Libby Tedder Hugus