God of the Wheat and Weeds, July 23rd Worship

Jesus saw the farm fields around him as a place of drama. In many of his parables Jesus would point to those fields to illustrate the essence of God’s relationship to His Creation. Today as we consider the Parable of the Weeds we hear from Jesus that God plans a day of reckoning or judgment in which all things will be made accountable to Him. At this harvest of sorts God alone gets to decide what will be saved and what will be discarded. This means that all of our ideas about who deserves what must be subject to God’s standard of what is fair and just. Perhaps today we should ask, if God should send His angels out to cut the harvest tomorrow what would they find in our homes or hearts: wheat or weeds? Thankfully in his great love and compassion Jesus guides us to the harvest in the triumph he has won for us.