This parable as seen through the lens of economics is not just, but through lens of salvation we can see the justice that gives rise. Our Lord is merciful and just with us and for this reality we have every reason to be thankful.
We are thankful for the Lord truly invites us to enter into holiness and thus enter into a deeper relationship with Him. He calls us out of our complacency and invites us to become true stewards of the Kingdom of Heaven. From the the Book of Isaiah we discovered a people who had been invited to see the Promised Land and yet they allowed their minds and hearts to wonder far from this reality. For this reason it was stated of them: “Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked his thoughts.”
Rather then allowing ourself to get caught wondering away from this path and entering into the complacency of everyday life we must come to heed the Lord who is near to us and begin to call upon Him with our lips. Despite the hardship which is present within one’s life Saint Paul instructed the Christians at Phillipi: “Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.”
Out of our complacency we must go in order that Christ may become magnified in our body. Thus in our Gospel the landowner went out and invited others to be sent forth to magnify Christ by their own body. Thus we must come to embrace our faith now and not hold off for some later hour. We must not only embrace our faith now, but we must also be sent forth into the abundant Harvest of the Lord to spread the good news of the Gospel.
It is easy to become complacent when what we do becomes a routine. Thus with the routine of marriage it easy to become complacent as one forgets about the goods of marriage and how this sacrament leads one to an encounter with God. In the midst of work it is easy to become complacent as one only directs their attention to worldly success rather then pursuing a relationship with God. In the midst of sin we become complacent in the many excuses that we make to pardon our offenses as we remove God from our midst.
Our Gospel is not about the fairness of economics, but is about the truths of our salvation. Our Lord calls us to not be complacent, but to be active in our pursuit of Him. Out of our slumber we must be stirred before it is too late because death has reached our midst and thus there is no longer hope for we have chosen our own path; even if that path removes us from God. May we no longer be the scoundrel who forsakes God’s way and who is filled with wicked thoughts, but rather may we allow Christ to be magnified in our body. Let us thus not be complacent, but chase after God with our whole heart and soul.
