The First Reading entreats us to call for God - NOW!
While we live, we can find Him and turn our hearts to Him.
Any wicked person who lives can repent and be brought back into the the fold for eternal life.
We do not know the ways of God
- we can't presume to know better than what He has revealed to us.
It is our role and responsibility to obey what He has revealed and taught through Christ.
God knows the greater Plan - He created it.
All-Knowing, All-Loving, and All-Just, He created a flawless Plan.
The Psalmist encourages us to trust in God's aid. Call Him
- and He will hear and act. He is not a fairy-godmother granting wishes, but every call for aid will be met with aid - although not always
the aid for which we ask. But our perfect and loving God,
more perfect than every parent, knows what we need before we ask it.
Let us pray that we will pray for what He knows we need.
In the Second Reading, St. Paul faces trial and death. Trustingly, he places his life at the in the hands of God's Divine Will. He accepts whatever comes with equanamity - staying close to our God, St. Paul has the confidence to know he is following God's path for him. If this si true and he believes in all that Christ taught, then he is can accept life, death, and suffering, knowing God has the prize that will last forever waiting for him.
This Gospel finds Jesus relating the parable of the laborers who begin employment at different times in the day, but all receive the same wage. It seems unfair - I would be disappointed if after working 8 hours someone who worked 2 hours received the same pay is I did.
But did those people not work?
Sometimes waiting for what we want is more difficult than actual labor. We tend to connect the laborers with those who come lately to the faith but still receive the same reward of heaven. Consider though that these laborers were not carousing and partying. Instead they were seeking employment. Lest some think they can put off God until it is more convenient, consider that those paid the same wage were those already seeking. This parable might be more about people who are seeking but finding it takes longer to have that breakthrough to complete fulfillment in God. It might not be about about the people who remain home sleeping or turned to their own pleasures of life
rather than trying to draw closer to God.