YOU ARE A TENANT

DAY 281

Matthew 21:37-38 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’

The owner of this vineyard was one who had great expectation from the workers in his vineyard. In fact, he gave them quite a lot of rope- the leeway to come to their senses. He kept sending servants to them and when they refused to budge, he was somehow convinced that ‘they will listen to my son’.

Well, the story speaks for itself ‘he was burnt, and he lost that son’. You see, there are many times when we have expectations of others which they will be unable to meet. Some through no fault of their own, others through intentional malice. Regardless, one thing is certain ‘even the best of us, still have Weaknesses’. It takes God’s sufficiency to sustain us.

The second lesson that stands out from the parable of the vineyard was summarised in our homily at Mass today, and proceeds from “There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country (Mt 21:33).

I recall the exact words of my parish priest “

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to think you own the whole world. You are here as a tenant, and everything you have, has been given to you as a lease”

Rev. Fr Kot

Be watchful then how you live.

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