by Renae Richardson

Created on: September 05, 2009   Last Updated: September 08, 2009

God is just! He is fair and loves His creation with an immeasurable passion. We can not understand His ways or methods but, who can seek to define a God who hung a billion twinkling lights in a midnight sky to provide light in a dark world. Who can define a God who chooses to stretch an expanse blanket of blue to cover the space of the infinite firmament? We are witnesses to His love, mercy, and compassion everyday but yet bereft of understanding. What we do know is this, God sends the gentle rains and brilliant sunshine into the life of all who inhabit this vast planet deserving or not.

Jesus is the physical manifestation of everything God is. Jesus is "the word", through Him came the existence of everything. In Jesus we discover the full nature of God. By Him we receive revelation. On Him (Jesus) do we depend. We seek His instruction on how to live that we may gain right standing with the Father.

Man is born a frail being susceptible to many physical ailments and full blown spiritual weaknesses. The majority are born spiritually blind with no comprehension of spiritual matters. Much of what we learn we receive through revelation as we develop. No two people mature at the same pace. Every man has an appointed time. God anoints those who will plant a seed but He alone gives the increase in His own time.

Jesus being fully man but yet the exact personage of the Father was well aware of these things. To see Him was to see the Father. To know and listen to Him was to know and listen to the Father. Jesus spoke in parables that those who could not yet understand spiritual matters could hear what God had to say on matters of love, compassion, right living and many other subjects. However, even the simplest parables were unsolvable mysteries for those with hardened and calloused hearts. We must remember that God worketh in those in whom He will (desires) when He desires.

In the parable of the Laborers Jesus teaches of God's compassion and justice. Jesus does so that the crowd may not only understand the nature of God but imitate those actions. At the same time He pointed out the condition of the human mind while teaching his disciples how to recognize a brother or sister with a calloused heart.

In this parable a generous land owner goes out and verbally advertises for employment opportunities for those waiting in the unemployment line. In his first round he finds a group of people who are eager for work. Before hiring the workers he negotiates pay, which all agree

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