When life is not fair

 Scripture: Exodus 16:2-15 and Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45  • Jonah 3:10-4:11 and Psalm 145:1-8  • Philippians 1:21-30  • Matthew 20:1-16

Life isn't fair. So said the murmuring Israelites when they complained about being led into the wilderness from the fleshpots of Egypt. And Jonah when God spared Nineveh,  capital of Assyria which conquered Israel and took the brightest and best into captivity. And what about Jesus' parable of the last arriving workers in the vineyard being paid the same as the first to arrive?

How did God respond to the Israelites? To Jonah? And what is Jesus teaching us?

Read Debie Thomas' "On Fairness," and "The Generosity of God," by The Rev. Dr. Michael Foss.