In Fairness – The Presidential Prayer Team

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:23

Inequality is at the core of much of the news today, and possibly even an issue in the confines of your own home. People want fairness!

Jesus tells an interesting story in Matthew explaining that the Kingdom of God is like an owner of a vineyard that went out early in the morning to hire workers. He made a deal with the laborers for a denarius in exchange for their work. Throughout the day the owner continued to bring workers into the field. At day’s end, he settled up by paying them all, even the ones working only one hour, a denarius. Now, for many, this scene seems unfair!

Jesus was instructing His disciples to look past human fair-mindedness when approaching God. The Bible shows that, regardless of the good humanity may do, the result of sin is separation from God. Yet He finds joy in offering something not earned, not deserved in any way, something infinitely better than fairness… Grace.

No one has earned God’s blessing of eternity in paradise with Him, but He welcomes all willing to accept His gift, even those humanly considered grossly undeserving, into His Kingdom. Never forget, as the owner of the vineyard, God’s grace is His to distribute.

Certainly, suffering in the world should be alleviated whenever possible but there is no form of government that will ever satisfy humankind’s desperate need for God’s grace. Pray for the hearts of those who govern America today to place their hope in God rather than human systems of fairness.

Today’s Verse: Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Recommended for further reading: Ephesians 2:1-9

2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins ²in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— ³among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. ⁴But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ⁶and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ⁹not a result of works, so that no one may boast.