Many of us may be familiar with the parable of the wheat and the tares, where a man plants good seed but while he sleeps an enemy comes in and sows weeds. When the servants see what has happened they ask what they are to do.
“The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” Matt 13:28-30
The whole parable is found in Matthew 13:24-30.
Jesus says that the harvesters are the angels at the end of the world.
So my question is this?
If we spot it… and others do to… isn’t it an act of grace to let them stay… so long as they are not hurting the good wheat? Might that demonstrate the gospel.
I think there is a difference between weeds and wolves.
Wolves… we are to get rid of them. Drive them out. They will do nothing but hurt and kill.
Weeds on the other hand… they grow fast, but if contained, they also burn up first in the heat of the Son. And when good fertilizer is in the ground… weeds can't live. They die off.
So let us exercise every bit of discernment we have before we call a weed a wolf.
Others might see something in those weeds, have compassion on them, and be uprooted as well if we were to pull it out too quickly.
Even those dandelions that grow up so quickly, if the lawn is then treated, die quickly and don’t do any further damage.
SDG
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