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as is often the case with Jesus' more difficult parables, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>we have to
pay careful attention to today's Gospel story. It's all about justice,
which is
rendering to each what is due</b></span>—a good and noble thing. When justice is
your primary consideration, you are basically in charge, morally
speaking. But what Jesus is doing today in this striking and annoying
story is to shake us out of that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>understanding of our relationship to
God.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
point is this: God owes us precisely nothing. Everything we have,
including our very existence, is a sheer gift. <u>We are in absolutely no
position ever</u> to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">demand</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">anything of</span> God.</b></span> To move into this space is to
move out of the stance of faith. And <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>so no matter what God asks, the
proper response is, "I am an unprofitable servant; I have done what I
was obliged to do."</b></span></span></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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