Evening: Psalms 10, 11; Amos 3:1-11; Luke 20:9-18
How
many politicians or sports teams, following defeat, declare, “We
win!”? In Jesus’s parable of the tenants, the vineyard owner (Jesus’s
metaphor for God) is defeated. In other words … those whom Jesus calls
to account will reject and kill him. Yet Jesus still declares,
paradoxically, that his Way will triumph. His disciples should expect
resistance, yet the ‘landlord’ will have the last word. But what about
the violence the landowner uses to punish the tenants? I understand it
to mean: If you treat people violently, your own violence will consume
you. It’s another law of nature.
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