The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.

Some things change in this world, and some things never do. There have always been and will probably always be more wolves in this world than lambs. More people trying to get into the feast, than those who are willing to labor for it. As humans we cant help but notice the differences around us. The fact that some are wealthy and some are rich is just a fact of life. There will always be this desparity among us, and even Jesus acknowledge that fact. But envy, lust, and covetness are truly dangerous temptations and can lead us down the devil’s diabolical steps of destruction:

Once the evil one identify’s the thing that you yearn for, the first thing he does is to tell you that “you deserve it.” When you believe that lie, that you “deserve” something, then you start to feel like you can take it because it was supposed to be yours anyway. When you take it, then you move onto the next step. On the 2nd step he tell you that you are a “victim” and that “you are owed it.” When you believe this lie, you start to feel that the only reason that you dont have it, is because someone is keeping it from you. When fall for this lie, then you will not only take it, but you will be righteously indignant if anyone says anything about it, and then you move onto the last step. The last step comes when the devil tell you that you are “better than them all,” and you start to believe that if it were not for you and your subjecting them to your will that they would be lost to the wolves, and that you are the only thing protecting them from something worse. But in fact, you are now the actual wolf, and they need to be protected from you.

The real trick in life is not letting the desparity get to you. We cannot have envy for those that have more than us, and we cannot have apathy for those that have less, we must find balance and seek to do good with whatever gifts that God has given us. We do this by answering God call, to be meek, never taking, only receiving. Working for what you receive, sharing it with those that have less and being grateful for it. But even more, it requires a soul that is of service, willingly giving from the heart, and asking for nothing in return. Those that give everything for the sake of God’s love will be the most exalted in heaven. Those that have everything and take what is not theirs, will be sent to eternal suffering in hell. So the question is simple do you want to be a lamb or a wolf. If you choose wolf, you might have it good for awhile, but just remember that eternity is a long time. I would rather have nothing in this life and spend eternity exalted in heaven than have everyting in this life and be damned in hell forever. Wouldn’t you?

Oh lord, help me today to put away any notion I might have of fairness, and what is owed me. But instead help me to understand how I can be of service to others, and labor for the harvest. Amen.