The parable in some ways addresses the Jewish
people and the way they had misused the trust put in them by God to take care
of the world into which they had been placed. they had been placed in the
position of caretakers. they had been given a position of trust and privilege
and they had misused it.
A
strong parallel could be drawn between this situation and our modern world
which God has created and placed in our care.
But
what does this say for us in our spiritual lives? What can be said from this
parable that we can take away in a transforming, liberating way. Firstly,
perhaps, that the sort of relationship that God wants to generate with us is
one of trust and intimacy.
Perhaps secondly, we have reaffirmed that God is a
god of passionate justice. Thirdly, that in our trusting relationship, we have
let God down in terms of the environment, in terms of just relationships. In
this story, we are called to be faithful, but we are also called to play the
role of the messenger. We
need to hear God’s disappointment about our relationship with our world and
respond out of that to behave in a radical manner to take care of the vineyard
that is on loan to us. Albert Schweitzer spent all his life exploring the
meaning of a little phrase “reverence for life”. If we explored this sufficiently then we would
find our lives revolutionized. Perhaps we would be more moved to live a life of
ecological sustainability.
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