“WEED” or “GOOD SEED!”

 Matthew 13:24-30                             (ESV)

“24 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."'" 

Being privileged to grow up in the shadows of a Master Gardener, I am no stranger to successful gardening techniques.  The lessons learned from my grandfather were vast, but hoeing weeds was probably my least favorite.  It seemed he always knew what to do to solve problems in the garden, a lot of them created your truly, to prevent a catastrophe from arising.  Being human, he wasn’t as adept at other things, but he could raise a garden like few others!

You can NOT expect to see a bountiful harvest if the seed is not nurtured and weeded, that is removing unwanted plants which rob the desired planted seeds of nutrients necessary for appreciated growth.  Hoeing weeds was the worst chore for an oversized boy whose only appreciated attention to detail was whether or not my plate was clean at dinner!  SEEING that getting the unwanted growth REMOVED from the plants that would wind up on my dinner plate never “clicked” in my brain.  

All of humanity, the “GOOD SEED” and the “WEEDS”, has been placed in this garden called earth.  Some “WEEDS” may grow far higher than the “GOOD SEED“, but in the end the “WEEDS” will be bundled up and BURNED in the lake of fire!  The WHEAT WILL BE GATHERED INTO THE BARN of the MASTER, for eternity!  “WEEDS”, having their time, will be SEPARATED from the “GOOD SEED” by THE MASTER GARDENER of the UNIVERSE WHO will pass JUDGMENT on them!

We do NOT have the ability to determine WHEN the JUDGMENT will come.  In Matthew 24:36, JESUS tells us, “But concerning THAT DAY AND HOUR no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the SON, but the FATHER only!”  THE MASTER GARDENER of eternity will then JUDGE us, not by our wealth, not by our good deeds, not by any earthly standard, but ONLY by our FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST!  RIGHT NOW is the ONLY guaranteed time we have to be Supernaturally CHANGED from a “WEED” to a “GOOD SEED”!!!