PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 13:1-30

What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?

“Let both grow together until the harvest.” (Matthew 13:30)
This parable describes what it is like in God’s kingdom on earth.
Good seed has been planted: compassion, grace, patience, love, etc.
But an enemy is also planting bad seed: greed, selfishness, cruelty, abuse, etc.
Many believers feel we need to enforce God’s way, and get rid of the ‘rot’.
But Jesus knows the risk; in the process the wheat will be at risk too.
To prevent uprooting the wheat, don’t put up the weeds.
This may sound like foolish farming, but it is extremely wise and good.
It is because of God’s concern the for weak and vulnerable that he does this.
Sure we live in a world of wheat and weeds, and the church is that way too.
But Jesus does not use force to separate, he lets love do the separating.
Servant love, not forceful leadership, is the Jesus Way of dealing with weeds.
I may struggle with that, but that is the only way I am allowed in too.
I am a weed in my own way, and so are you, and so is everyone.
The day of final separation will come, but that day is not now.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, your family currently contains both wheat and weeds mixed together… including me. May your gracious love keep me from crushing the wheat in my attempt to keep your church ‘pure’.