Septuagesima
Matthew 20:1-16
February 9, 2020

“God’s Generosity”

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

I have a short object lesson to start today. These used to be quite popular so I’m assuming most of you have seen one before. I forgot I even had this until Kane and Lydia asked what it was in Confirmation class earlier this year. If you haven’t seen one before, your eyes naturally focus in on the light colored pieces of wood in the front and it looks like a bunch of random, crazy symbols. But from father away it’s much easier, you see that actually you’re supposed to focus on the letters in between and it’s the name of Jesus.

Now it’s very easy for us, who are sinners, to focus in on all the things in the world we don’t like. We can focus on what we don’t have, what we think we should have, the bad things we don’t think should’ve happened to us, the stupid mistakes we’ve made, the evil and suffering in the world, and all the things we don’t like about ourselves. This is easy to do and it comes naturally for sinners like us. And when we focus on the wrong thing, we’re never happy or content or joyful. But today’s readings remind us to see something else. To not see everything you don’t have but everything you do have. To not focus on the bad, but focus on the good. To see just how incredibly good and generous God is to you. And, most of all, to see Jesus.

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