The Kingdom of God is Like.....Wheat and Weeds
Spend some time, perhaps with your journal, pondering the following statements made in the sermon
The Gospel, the good news, is the availability of the kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God is the society in which the will of God is done.
The kingdom of God is in fact the presence of the future.
When this parable is read in the context of a gathering of the people of God like this, Jesus is really telling us that in the church there will always be wheat and weeds. And it will be very difficult, before the fruit appears, to tell the difference.
When does fruit appear in us?
However, in the kingdom of God, all things are possible, and especially the conversion from weed to wheat, from bad to good, from evil to redeemed, from condemned but repentant prisoner on a cross next to Jesus to citizen of heaven in eternity, from Saul to Paul and so on and so on.
In the kingdom of God, weed can be converted to wheat right up to the very end.
The wheat might well want to pull itself up and move to the field next door, the one that looks as if it is full of good soil, one that seems to have no weeds……….. but……. Jesus says here and on many other occasions: we don't have that choice when we decide to live the Kingdom way.
Let both grow together.
We cannot choose to remove ourselves from those in the Kingdom who we find it difficult to get along with.
