Do You Trust Him?

In the parable of the workers and the vineyard, the landowner (the Lord) gives to all the workers in the vineyard the same wages.  Some went to work early in the morning and the others at three hour intervals until the last group at the eleventh hour.  When the steward of the landowner paid the workers,   the wage was considered to be unfair. The workers were admonished for their not trusting the landowner to give everyone a fair wage (Matthew 20:1-16).  The Lord taught his disciples to pray “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11)  Trust God for the daily needs or temporal needs and trust God for the spiritual needs. “For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard” (Matthew 20:1) 

Charles Spurgeon in his Morning and Evening

writes about our trust in the Lord:

…If you cannot trust God for temporals, how dare you trust Him for spirituals?  Can you trust Him for your soul’s redemption, and not rely upon Him for a few lesser mercies?  Is not God enough for thy need, or is His all-sufficiency too narrow for thy wants?  Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?  Is His heart faint?  Is His arm weary?  If so, seek another God; but if He be infinite, omnipotent, faithful, true, and all-wise, why gaddest thou abroad to seek another confidence? …Wait thou only upon God, and let thine expectation be from Him.  Covet not Jonah’s gourd, but rest in Jonah’s God.  Let the sandy foundations of terrestrial trust be the choice of fools, but do thou, like one who foresees the storm, build for thyself an abiding place upon the Rock of Ages.

To pray, “Forgive us…as we forgive” is to trust God for our spiritual need.  To pray, “Give us this day our daily bread” is to trust God for our physical need.  Jesus is “the bread of life” and “water of life”.  Do you trust Him in everything?  We must remember that we are his workmen.  We must remember we work in His vineyard.  We must remember that He has our best interest at heart…only trust Him.

Trusting Him,

Pastor Allen