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I was reading through Matthew chapter 13 today, it’s the parables of the weeds.  I’ll put the scripture at the end of this post so you can have a reference point.  But, as I was reading something struck me.  It said that the wheat and the weeds started growing together and would be separated later when it was time for the harvest (i.e. at death or judgment) because if they had uprooted the weeds the wheat would have also been destroyed.  This got me to thinking… that if the wheat and the weeds are growing together i.e. wheat (believers) weeds (unbelievers) that we are both in the same boat together.

Which means that God’s plan was never for us to be separate from the weeds but for both of us to grow together in this world.  Which in my mind is Jesus’ way of saying lets not uproot everyone and start over like we did at the flood but let the believers be with the unbelievers in their culture and influencing their lives not trying to change culture but to just be in it.

God didn’t want it to be us verse them..

but us and them..

For us to understand that it isn’t our job to sow or reap the harvest it is our job to be the harvest to be the wheat in a field of weeds and let God sort through the rest.

Here are the scriptures tell me what you think on twitter @tyellisonmusic oh and listen to ” The Swell Season.” :

“The Parable of the Weeds”

²⁴Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. ²⁶When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

²⁷“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

²⁸” ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

²⁹” ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them.

³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’

“The Parable of the Weeds Explained”

³⁶Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

³⁷He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. ³⁸The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, ³⁹and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

⁴⁰“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. ⁴¹The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

⁴²They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁴³Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.