God Is Not Unfair

 Is 55:6-9

 6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call on him while he is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake their ways
    and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts above your thoughts.

This passage from Isaiah compliments today's Gospel about the payment of the men who were hired last to work in the fields but who received the same payment as those who worked a full day. (cf. Mt 20: 1-16).  The landowner's generosity left a bitter taste in their mouths for they failed to remember that God's thoughts are not ours, nor his ways ours.  No, they are far above, perhaps even beyond the reach of our impaired (and sometimes self-centered) understanding. Hence, the need to sit with Isaiah today...a perfect reflection for "the Lord's Day". May we not miss the opportunity on this day of rest to retool our thinking into the ways of the Lord's...at least to add some fuel to this life-long process.  Tune into and turn to 'the ways of the Lord."

Bro. Rene