In Whose Vineyard Are You Working?

We are all given some area of trust or responsibility by God, even if it is just to show love to our neighbors. But our human tendency can be to take that trust for granted and forget that we must answer to God for how well we carry it out. In today’s parable, the religious leaders were confronted with their own failure to carry out the trust God had given them. In no uncertain terms, Jesus was asserting that the leaders of Israel (who turned against both Him and John the Baptist) had rejected God’s messengers and faced the prospect of divine judgment.