Are you wheat or Tare?

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 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?’ 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?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 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.’”


 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) What does this mean? 

This is what the disciples were wondering until Jesus explained the parable to them. Jesus sows the good seed, which represents the people of the Kingdom. The seed is sown in the field, which represents the world, but Jesus went away. While we await Jesus' return, Satan - the enemy in the parable - sows weeds, which represent the people of Satan, those who reject Jesus. At the end of the age, Jesus shall return but until then He shall permit the weeds to grow among the wheat.

The saved and the unsaved will live together in the present, until Jesus returns. But woe to the weeds when Christ returns, for He will command His angels to gather the unrepentant people of Satan and condemn them for their transgressions to - as Jesus put it - a "fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth". The good seed, on the other hand, shall be gathered into Christ's barn where they shall "shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father" and have eternal life! Are you good seed of God or are you the weeds sown by Satan? Hear this parable and take heed, for the words of the parable are both wonderfully and fearfully true.

We have a choice on how to respond to God's offer of salvation! We all need forgiveness - whether Christian, atheist, Muslim, Jew, agnostic, etc - and so we all need to respond to the Gospel! Blessings!