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I haven’t slept much since my last post. These last 6 hours have been a real wrestling match. Me against me with God on the sidelines watching. Why did I let something that has not slighted me in the least cause me so much anger and hurt? That has been my question for the last 18 hours.
Then, about an hour ago, God whispered to me. This doesnt happen often to me. But he said, get up, read the parable of the workers and wages. So I did. This passage reminds me that depsite what I learned at work, I had already agreed to do a job at a predetermined wage. What business is it of mine how others are compensated?
Within my selfish world view I had forgotten this parable. Who am I to call generosity to one a slight to an other? I hope that a bit of meditation on this one will actually calm my spirit. My flesh begs to go to work and give two weeks notice. I know that is not the correct course of action. So with the words of Matthew 20 in my head, I go to work with an aniticipation of what it is that I might learn from this.
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.
2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the market-place doing nothing.
4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’
5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 ‘Because no-one has hired us,’ they answered. He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.
11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.
12 ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius?
14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.
15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last.

Thanks to Bible Gateway for the cut and paste scripture.