In the parable in Matthew 25, the owner says, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave.”
As Dr. Gary Green preached in October, it may help to see this parable as a disruptive event. It can disrupt our usual ways of seeing God and society. Have you ever considered the master’s statement in the parable to be ironic?
Jesus used humor in his parables to get people to see with new eyes. When the third slave in the story says, “Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not reap,” it is a clue to a comic perspective. Jesus is trying to get us to see that God is NOT a harsh man. How do you imagine God instead?
Jesus repeatedly turned usual perceptions upside-down. What happens if you look from the perspective of a seed or a child today?
People of St. Timothy, thanks for your ongoing openness to seeing with new perspectives!
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