DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Weeds Growing In The Wheat!

Weeds Growing In The Wheat!

An enemy did this.

Matthew 13:28 NIV - "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

Matthew 13:24-30 is an eye-opening parable. Jesus warned that while we are planting wheat (God's Word), the enemy is planting weeds (deception). And it's happening in the same field!

Why? (1) Because we've fallen asleep. "While everyone was sleeping, his enemy … sowed weeds among the wheat" (Matthew 13:25 NIV - but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.). Wake up! Dynamic personalities and big crowds don't guarantee truth is being taught. Paul warns the Ephesian church: "After I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock" (Acts 20:29 NIV - For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.).

(2) Because the sowers look and sound alike. Who are these people sowing bad seed? Paul answers: "From your own number men will arise and distort the truth" (Acts 20:30 NIV - Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.). Note, they started out right but went wrong. You say, "Should we pull up the weeds?" No. Jesus said, "While you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn" (Matthew 13:29-30 NIV- "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. 30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

There are many ‘voices’ speaking today and you need discernment at to the spirit that’s at work in them. Think it's no big deal? One degree off course may seem harmless enough, but stay on that trajectory and you'll end up far from where God wants you to be, then realise, "An enemy did this". Protect yourself by living in God's Word, staying filled with the Holy Spirit which will "guide you into all truth" (John 16:13 - However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.) and surrounding yourself with those of "like precious faith" (2 Peter 1:1 - Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:).