Charity

Jesus tells a story about a landowner who hires people all day to work in his fields.  Some work only an hour and some work the whole day depending on when they got hired.  The workers are all day laborers.  At the end of the day, the owner pays everyone the same.  His generosity is in treating them as all equals to one another.  But the first hired complain.  They are of the economic mindset that justice is served when those who do the most should be paid the most and those who do the least should be paid the least.  For them, there is no sense of being equal to one another when it comes to money or material things.  Today, this might play out in the mindset of the charitable giver who has way more than the need, for whatever reason and decides to share some in charity for the poor.  The poor stay poor and the rich stay rich in most of these cases.  So it should be, you say?  Well, if you also say you are a follower of Jesus, he saw justice differently than you do.  Be glad that your God's generosity does not depend on your efforts.