Deep Thought from last place to first

[Virgo69]

“Those who have the last place now will have the first place in the future.”
~~Matthew 20:16

Why do so many of us get left behind? How many stories do you know where the hourglass is turned and all there’s left is watching the final countdown of when the chaos will begin? We get told enough times that only the rotten fruit gets left in the gin, and we begin to believe it. God has a peculiar passion for the forgotten. Ever read when his hands healed the festered skin of the leper? The face of the prostitute cupped in his hands?

What society puts out, God puts in. What the world writes off, God picks up. That must be why Jesus told the story of the chosen workers. It’s the first story of his final week. It’s the last story he will tell before entering Jerusalem. Once inside the city walls Jesus becomes a marked man. The hourglass will be turned and the final countdown and chaos will begin.

Do you remember how you felt? Do you remember the perspiration on your forehead and the crack in your soul? DO you remember how you tried to hide the loneliness until it got bigger than you and then you just tried to survive?

Hold that picture for a moment. Now answer this. Why did he choose you? Why did he choose me? Honestly. Why? What do we have that he needs?
Intellect? Do we honestly think for one minute that we have – or ever will have – a thought he hasn’t had?
Willpower? I can respect that. Some of us are stubborn enough to walk on water if we felt called to do so… but to think God’s kingdom would have done a belly-up without our determination?
How about money? We came into the kingdom with a nice little nest egg. Perhaps that’s why we were chosen. Perhaps the creator of heaven and earth could use a little of our cash. Maybe the owner of every breath and every person and the author of history was getting low on capital and he saw us and our black in and … Get the point?

[THX1138]

Wow Virgo, what a great thread, thank you!

It is true... God, in His way does seem to "pick up the slack" so to speak for the disenfranchised.

"The first shall be last and the last shall be first."

Right through the Bible, God has repeatedly picked up and dusted off one that mankind had shunned.;)

Moses, Joseph down a well, Sarah, who thought she could no longer bear children, King David the least of eight sons, Ruth a Moabite woman...

(There are hundreds of examples of this in the Bible, I could go on, and on, and on...)

So... it seems God does seek out the one in 99.

So... when we feel as though we are persecuted... when we might think "Hey... everyone has theirs... where's mine?"

When we feel we have been singled out...

Perhaps we have been...;)

God can see into our hearts, God knows the true value in each and every one of us.

Nice thread! *****

Thx :)