“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and he leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey” (Matthew 21:33).
The Lord has created all that you see. He entrusted this world to humanity. What has happened? Humanity is greedy and selfish. Some take and others are taken from. We have beauty all around us, but there is much that has been despoiled. We seek progress but we are still where we began. Progress is not conquering the world, for it has already been conquered by sin. We are called to follow a different path.
Lord, I am caught up in the trap of sin in this world. I am in this vineyard You have made, and I have heard Your message of truth, but I often fall back into the ways of this world. Free me from the snares of sin. Teach me the freedom You grant by grace. Show me how to live life as it is meant to be lived. Help me learn what it means to walk by faith. Shut my ears to the discord of this world to receive Your pure word of truth.
Lord Jesus, the disease is in me. You have died for me that by grace I would be freed, but I still live as one trapped. Help me to see with clarity the truth of what You have revealed. Guide me to live into the life to which You have called me. Let me not be hindered by sin but live freely in the faith You have given me. Keep me in Your word, Lord, so that I may humbly go wherever You lead me. Amen.
