I was reading Matthew 20:1-16, the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard for my devotions one morning. For the first time in a long time, I really felt the Holy Spirit revealing the character of God to me.

The first time going through, I immediately thought, "So, what's the point of this, should I be someone who's hired at the eleventh hour? It can't be that." Realistically, God can be generous all he wants, he's entitled to do whatever. Wouldn't it have made more sense to hire all the workers you needed at the beginning so you can optimize the value of the denarius you're paying? That would make more logical sense.

Then that's when God revealed himself saying "You're assuming that I actually need the workers." That's when it hit me, that God really doesn't need us at all to do his work. We're completely expendable. Yet, he chooses to give us the opportunity to work in his vineyard.

Two other things that were revealed. 1) It's completely by God's grace and not by anything we've earned. 2) God really gives everyone the opportunity to be a part of his kingdom. It break whatever self justification I had in myself and reminds me that I'm a Child of God only by grace. Wow.