Psalm 45:7
You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore GOD, your GOD, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions
One of the stories in the Bible that show how wicked human beings could be is the parable of the Wicked Vinedressers told by JESUS CHRIST and recorded in Mark 12:1-9, Matthew 21:33-46, and Luke 20:9-19.
In the account in the Book of Mark, the owner of a vineyard leased it to vinedressers and went to a far country. At different times, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, so that he might receive some of the fruits of the vineyard from them.
However, the wicked vinedressers beat the first servant and sent him away empty-handed.
They threw stones at another servant, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
They also killed the next servant, beat many others, and killed some.
When the owner of the vineyard finally sent his heir, thinking that they would respect him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.
They did that because they wanted the inheritance to become theirs.
This was wickedness.
JESUS asked, “Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others” (Mark 12:9 New King James Version).
The religious leaders wanted to arrest JESUS because they realized HE was telling the story about them – they were the wicked vinedressers. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left HIM and went away
But didn’t they prove JESUS CHRIST right eventually when they conspired to crucify HIM?
They are not really our focus.
Our focus is on the wickedness of human beings.
Some people today behave like these wicked vinedressers.
You do them good and they repay you with evil.
How could some people beat and kill the servants of someone who leased his property to them?
As if that was not enough, they killed his heir so that the property could become theirs.
Wickedness!
Jeremiah lamented, “Should they repay evil for good? They have dug a pit to kill me, though I pleaded for them and tried to protect them from your anger” (Jeremiah 18:20).
It is sad that human beings don’t always repay good with good.
Many people have fallen victim of this.
If people have repaid evil for the good you did, never mind.
Extract lessons from it but don’t retaliate.
The GOD of justice will fight for you.
You will laugh last.
Join us at midnight (Nigeria Time) on Friday 28 March 2025 at our end of the month Friday Night Vigil on Zoom.
For zoom link details please check the Rebirth WhatsApp channel or send an email to: info@rebirthrwc.org
Copyright © 2024 Design By Olowott.
