We are not destined to be wolves who will fall at each other's throats if necessary.
After hearing today's gospel, it was reinforced in me again how much we don't know God's way of thinking, and of course we can't get out of our own skin either. How is it possible that God is not selective? How is it possible that people are not hierarchical?
Because with our human brains we are not able to accept that
God did not send us, his creatures, to a life-long competition where the goal is to continuously defeat each other, but he had a completely different vision for humanity. Arm in arm, using our talents well, let's build a strong bond between God and man, between man and man. We are not destined to be wolves who will fall at each other's throats if necessary.
In today's Gospel, the vineyard owner teaches his workers exactly this: love, attention, acceptance, and forgiveness know no boundaries.
Of course, it must be said as a sentence: We are not the same! There are early risers, late converts and lifelong seekers. But everyone has in common the desire to know the transcendent from the moment they were created. The only question is when we will come to this realization! It might be early in the morning, it might be around three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, or at the last minute. In fact, time doesn't matter, the essence matters: let it be a meeting that is not a flash in the pan, but permanent.
That's how God thinks. He can afford to give 1 denarius for much less work! What matters to him is that you accepted the invitation: come!
This attitude is far from our everyday life. How annoying it is when we have been standing at the cash register for minutes and the last one sees the cash register open and takes the first place.
But we don't behave differently at work either. You may have been working at the company/school for 10-15 years, but the newly hired employee is moving up the ranks to you due to his competences and aptitude.
Our church communities also carry similar, bad attitudes, especially towards those who convert as adults, or who were located elsewhere in the old world in the political-religious field.
Do you think I'm good?
- asks the vineyard farmer, asks the Heavenly Father. But at the same time, he calls out: Come to my vineyard too! Don't wait, don't fill your life with futility, but act! Success and results will not be left behind! Even the last can be the first!
Featured image: Árpád Földházi / Mandiner
