Accept Or Reject?

 

 Mark 12:1-12

The Parable of the Tenants

12 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. ² At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. ³ But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. ⁵ He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.

⁶ “He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

⁷ “But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ⁸ So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

⁹ “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;
¹¹ the Lord has done this,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

¹² Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.

Each day circumstances arise which cause us to make choices, and basically they revolve around accepting or rejecting some emissary from God, be it a teaching, a representative, or the service to someone in need, material or  spiritual. Reading and learning from this parable we see that rejection of what God wants or who he sends is not a wise option. Our daily prayer is necessary, for there we will learn, as Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane, that the ultimate prayer is, "Thy will, not mine, by done." (Mark 14: 36)

Bro. Rene

Dear God, may I not reject who or what you send my, but turn my whole being over to you to carry out what you ask of me and know what is best for me. Amen.