Thank
you to everyone who put their two cents worth in on The Parable of the Sower. I loved reading through everyone’s
ideas. Hopefully you all learned as much
as I did from all the awesome comments.
This past week I’ve been camping out in The Parable of the Weeds. Similar to the Parable of the Sower, Jesus
compares God’s truth and word to a seed.
But takes a different perspective on how sin looks to and affects our
world. It also gives a very abridged
timeline as to how sin came into the world and in the end how God is going to
deal with it. This parable is found in
Matthew 13:24-30:
Mat
13:24-30 He put another parable before
them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed
good seed in his field, (25) but while his men were sleeping, his enemy
came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. (26) So
when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. (27)
And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him,
‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have
weeds?’ (28) He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So
the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ (29)
But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat
along with them. (30) Let both grow together until the harvest, and
at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them
in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'”
I’ve
been reading through this passage for about a week now and this is some stuff
that I got:
·
In verse 25 the weed Jesus is referring
to is called darnel. It’s a weed that
looks similar to wheat and is almost indistinguishable until the wheat bears
its grain (verse 26). For me this was a
reinforcement that people are not always how they seem. Most people in America will tell you that
they are Christian, and some of them go to church. But when it comes down to it you can’t truly
tell the darnel from the wheat until you see they’re fruit.
·
Something about verse 29 kept drawing
me in. I felt like there was something I
was supposed to get from this verse, primarily ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds
you root up the wheat along with them.’ This
is definitely a verse that I would love to hear everyone else’s ideas on. But from what I can tell Jesus is answering
the old question of “Why doesn’t Jesus just come back now?” From this parable you would conclude that
there are still wheat in the world that are growing and are to bear fruit one
day. But if Jesus were to send His
workers to root up the weeds now those wheat that God has plans for in the
future would get rooted up as well.
·
I like how this parable is a brief
timeline of creation. We have creation
(verse 24). Then the fall of man (verse
25). Then the second coming of Christ
(verse 30).
