july 23, 2005

Weeds among the Wheat Mt 13:24-30

Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. "The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him and said, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?' He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.' His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?' He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
Judgement is for God not for people. The weeds, the sins, the evil deeds are not for me to change. I need only be concerned with the harvest of good that I have planted and protecting and gathering that. If I get concerned about the sins of others or their evil it will have an effect of damaging the good that I have planted. I need to tend to my ways until the time of God's judgement. There will always be evil and sin. There will be an enemy that will sow weeds among the wheat when I am not watching. It takes being steadfast many times to ignore the evil weeds in the field and protect the good wheat and trust that it will work out when it is time for harvest.