small and sour

Thursday October 9th, Matthew 21: 3 3"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. This world has all that is needed to live as God intended. The call is to live as the children of God and to show mercy, love justice and walk humbly before our God. We have a little trouble with the mercy part, and now that it is mentioned, the justice part also, and we don’t do so well at walking humbly before God. There are times we even blame God for our part in the mess, but that doesn’t work so well. The fruit is collected, but sometimes it doesn’t look so good. I think we can do better. There are a few shining examples but most of the fruit is kind of small and sour.