1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went. “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ 7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’ 8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’ 9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’ 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” (Matthew 20:1-16)
Here, the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out to hire workers to work in his vineyard. The landowner went out to hire workers to work in his vineyard at different times: early morning, 9 o’clock, noon, 3 o’clock, and 5 o’clock, one hour before the end of the work. In the end, each of them received a denarius. The meaning of this parable is that the Lord Jesus, the landowner called people to serve him at different time, but their remuneration was the same. The first hired thought they would get more and complained that the landowner was unfair. The landowner was not unfair because they had agreed that the wages were one denarius, but the landowner was generous and also gave one denarius to those who only worked for one hour. These people who only worked for one hour were weak people, and no one was willing to hire them. They needed this money more.
In the past few years, I have been sharing the gospel on WeChat and on my gospel website, and I have more time to share the Lord’s words. At the end of 2020, the Lord gave me the gift of writing songs through a dream. In the dream, I was told that I would write many songs, and I ended up writing many songs. He also taught me to pray for the healing of people, for example: I prayed for an old sister’s unbearable headache, the Lord healed her. I prayed for another sister with shingles, and she was also healed by the Lord, shingles is also very painful. Thank the Lord, and glory to the Lord. A person is never too old to believe in the Lord and serve the Lord. Even if you are old and can’t do anything, you can still pray for others and receive the Lord’s rewards. May God bless you and your family!
