M20
I really do have to apologize for my last post. I’ve been meaning to write something for the last 3 days since it’s been up but just haven’t gotten around do adding any content to the site. In fact I wasn’t planning on putting this article up tonight either…. Because at work we’re doing a lot of overtime now and I’ve been forced to arise at 5am that means 2 or less hours of sleep a night for me… which is wearing me down like no other. Thanks to my decision to check out one last link (I have over 200 items saved under my favorites and as I was running through them for my business stuff tonight I saw one that intrigued me) I ended up listening to Tears Don’t Fall by Bullet for My Valentine which is just an awesome song that gets me going enough to forget the exhaustion for a bit. Check the song out on MySpace if you don’t know it… not a christian band but it’s still uber sweet
Obviously if you read my last post you know that it was primarily me bashing a guy who annoys me… I won’t be taking the post down, mostly because I’m not about to even attempt to hide sin, yes I know it was wrong, and I’m sorry. I never really felt right about it, but I’ve been so freaking frusterated that something needed to be my scapegoat so I went ahead and posted it. Sunday at church Jim was continuing his series on the Lord’s Prayer and read something from Mathew 20 that was just one of those moments where you’re half listening to the words of someone else as the Holy Spirit pokes at your heart with a stick. Jesus is telling a story of how the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. They agreed to work for what was considered one days pay at the time. He goes out several other times during the day and each time comes back with others to work for “what is right.” At the end of the day he has everyone line up starting with the people who only worked one hour, and the others behind. He starts off by paying those who only worked a short period of time one days wage, and pays everyone the same. When it got to the men who had worked all day they grumbled and complained that they did not get more for their work. Now in all honesty what they were paid was more than they deserved, being unskilled, untrained workers one days wage was an awesome pay. There’s a hundred points that could be drawn from this story but since I’m fading off I won’t list them all right now. The point that I took from it was that none of these men deserved what they had got, and even though some of them had worked harder and longer than others they were all equal in the fact that before the landowner came to them they were outside of the kingdom and without hope. Often times I take for granted the wisdom, and mind that I’ve been given. Even though I have not worked for the knowledge that I have I still have it, and should not be using it to belittle others who were not blessed in that area so greatly.
Just wanted to put up this apology now since I know that over the next weeks updates will be few and far between if at all as I reconfigure KCLAN and begin to make money with my sites again.