God's kingdom is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. That night, while his hired men were asleep, his enemy sowed thistles all through the wheat and slipped away before dawn. When the first green shoots appeared and the grain began to form, the thistles showed up too.
The farmhands came to the farmer and said Master, that was clean seed you planted, wasn't it?
Where did the thistles come from?
He answered, some enemy did this.
The farmhands asked, Should we weed out the thistles?
He said, No, if you weed the thistles, you'll pull up the wheat, too.
Let them grow together until harvest time.
Then I'll instruct the harvesters to pull up the thistles and tie them in bundles for the fire, then gather the wheat and put it in the barn.
Matthew 13:24-30 The Message
There have been things as of recent days that have truly grieved my spirit.
I have been praying that God would give me His words to express an issue I believed needs to be addressed, and today while reading through some parables of Jesus I came across the one about weeds.
You see I feel as though the enemy has been sowing thistles through the wheat of our adoptions for the past couple of days.
I think that in our humanness we allow ourselves to get distracted by the thistles, instead of focusing on the harvest that will come.
I pray that as we continue on this leg of our journey through life, and our children come home, that we will simply let the weeds do their thing and stay firmly fixed on the harvest that WILL come as promised by the One and Only who is faithful to complete it.
