Returning what is Due

You can't buy loyalty, you can only invest in it.
Ronny M. Cole

Matt 21:33-39
"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. "When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce. "The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third. "Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them. "But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, "They will respect my son.' "But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.' "They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. NASU

In the tiny vineyard of this world, which God planted and made us caretakers of, we will find all that we need to produce that which we are to produce for Him. We have all the tools that we need and all of the facilities that are necessary to return to Him what we owe. But, there is an important fact that cannot be refused, and it is to recognize Him as the owner of all that is within these walls.

We can see from this story that God sent his slaves first, to retrieve what was His, and they shamefully abused them. Notice that God was insistent on retrieving what was His, He is God. When the first group of slaves didn’t retrieve what was His, He sent another, and finally after they were abused, and killed, He sent His Son. They thought when they killed THE SON, that everything in the walls would be theirs.

In Heb 1:1-2, tells us this, “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.” You see, God sent His Son to reclaim from our lives what was His. Maybe the biggest gift we could give this Christmas, is to give from our lives, what is due to the Owner of the vineyard…God Bless

Pastor William