My heart the wheat field

Once again, I am posting my journal entry for the day. Before I do, I would like to say that I am simply offering a parralel interpretation of this parrable. nothing more.

S:- Matthew 13:24-30 - 24 Here is another story Jesus told: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. 25 But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. 26 When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew.

27 “The farmer’s workers went to him and said, ‘Sir, the field where you planted that good seed is full of weeds! Where did they come from?’

28 “‘An enemy has done this!’ the farmer exclaimed.

“‘Should we pull out the weeds?’ they asked.

29 “‘No,’ he replied, ‘you’ll uproot the wheat if you do. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’”

O:- I need to be careful, I'm not suggesting that Jesus was wrong in his interpretation of his own parrable. far from it. I am offering a parralell interpretation. The farmer is God. The field is my heart. The seed is the gifts, talents, abilities, words, dreams, everything He has given me. The weeds are the aspects of my nature, the sin in my life, the wrong thinking, attitudes, essentially everything not of God. I'm not being fatalistic and suggesting that there is no hope for me, and my life will be infested with weeds until eternity comes. Note in verse 30 the farmer says "let both grow together UNTIL THE HARVEST" when it's harvest time, it doesn't matter what gets pulled up with the weeds, because the wheat is ripe and ready for harvesting.

A:- If God were to suddenly remove all my vices and faults and flaws, I would be rendered completely useless to Him and everyone else, because all the good things in my life would be lessened or removed completely along with the bad. This is why it can take such a long time to deal with certain things in life, because our character and the person God wants us to be is still growing right next to and even through our faults and failings. Once our character becomes mature, and once our fruit is ripe, then we will be equipped to and will in fact automatically deal with our faults.

P:- Dear God, may I grow quickly. Help me to learn what I need to learn, grow where I need to grow and become who I need to become. Teach me how to be who you need me to be.