Divorce! Salvation! Food for thought!

Good morning all! God is good all the time, all the time God is good. TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!
        Two items God has placed on my heart.  Yesterday as I was having lunch I noticed a pickup with a young man sitting and seemed to be waiting.  Within a few minutes up drives an suv with a young lady in it.  The man gets out, the lady gets out, no greeting, no embrace. The man opens the back of the suv and the lady opens the back door and takes out a small child.  Aha, it is Wednesday, Dad's day for divorced people.  The child is 16 months old, the couple in their 20's, and a decision they made the child will have to live with for the rest of his life - DIVORCE.
    Divorce means 4 sets of grandparents instead of 2; 8 sets of great-grandparents instead of 4; and on and on.  Then......where do you go for holidays?  Some will want your alliance and resent the other; divorce is not good.  But it does happen. Check Matthew 19:3-13 or Malachi 2:14-16.
    We make decisions as adults on our wants, just as the child does. Is it right? Does God like divorce?  NO!  But, if we turn it all over to God it will be right.  If we allow God to, He will make our wrongs right, but will we allow Him to?
     The other item I felt placed on my heart is Matthew 20:1-16. Please take time to read this. It is about the land owner who hired workers for a denarius.  The ones who worked 12 hours received the same as the workers who worked 1 hour.  They grumbled about this, they should have gotten more. The land owner said they agreed to work for a denarius and he could pay as he sees fit since it is his to do with.
    Now put this in the salvation context.  What about the person who is saved at the eleventh hour, does he deserve the same salvation as the one who accepted at the sixth hour, or at the first hour?  The answer here is a resounding YES!  What about the people who are left once the rapture happens?  They did no accept, don't they deserve hell?  God, as is laid out in Revelations, offers another chance.   If they accept do they deserve heaven?  YES!  Our God is a God of second chances.
    Entrance to heaven is by God's grace. This parable is about salvation; it teaches about grace, God's generosity.  We should not begrudge those who turn to God in the last moments of life. In reality, no one deserves eternal life.  You will see people in heaven you never expected to see. Rejoice!  Today, focus on God's gracious benefits to you, and be thankful for what you have. Love you all.
   In Christ's Love and Grace
       Johnny