Backseat Drivers

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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I don’t think any of us like a backseat driver… I sure don’t. In fact I broke my wife of this habit after just a few escapades… she would begin to tell me where to go and how to get there… I would simply follow directions until we were completely lost. She would say “uh, honey where are we?” I would tell her I have no clue… and in fact I one time said “I think we are headed to Iowa”. She couldn’t yell at me, because she realized I just followed her directions.

 

 

It seems like in todays world everyone wants to be a backseat driver to my life… I am sure you feel it to. Everyone wants to tell you what is right, wrong or unfair in your life and in their life AND what to do about it. 

 

 

Matthew 21 HAS 4 LIFE LESSONS THAT ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR TODAY 

20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.

“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

 

Real life lessons from Mathew 20

 

1 For most entrepreneurs, business people, People with dreams and goals… timing is 90% of your success.

*These last minute workers had timing on their side.

*So be ready at all times.

*Work hard at all times.

*Learn from your failures at all times.

*Don’t give up trying even when timing does not work out right. 

*Ultimately if you are doing all these things you can trust God for his timing. 

 

 

2 Your energy is a great predictor of your gifting and direction for work.

10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

 

 

 

3 Consistency is the best indicator of truth.

Science loses, your upbringing loses, what you have been told loses, the media loses… what wins the argument of what is true? Consistency.

What do you see in reality again and again…

Here is an example: Money does not buy you happiness, nor does fame, nor does good looks, or talents… we have literally thousands of examples of these types of people who are miserable, suicidal, or have taken their lives. 

 

 

 

4 This last one is going to spank the entitled little turd blossoms out there who keep yelling unfair unfair unfair… 

Don’t let your unhappiness, your lack of work ethic, the media, your professor or your seemingly bad luck trick you into thinking you can tell others how to spend their money. 

Should we as Followers of Christ share and be generous… yes, but what we do with our money is still our choice according to God. We will let God direct us and even allow the reaping and sowing process to take its course for those who are stingy… but it’s still not your call.

And for the record, I have found time and time again those who complain about “fairness” don’t themselves tithe, give or sacrifice… so it is the epitome of hubris. 

The point of generosity is you give to those in need regardless of wether or not you yourself are in need… and in fact that may be the ultimate test of your theory that people should be generous and fair… that you practice it yourself while in need. 

 

Your past knows where you are, it will come and get you at some time. Dan Little