The first hearers of this word were no doubt encouraged by it.
Justice will be done and love wins as good will triumph over evil. It is a good
word for all who weary of a world infested by evil and the misery it causes
even if one hopes God’s judgment is tempered by mercy for weeds in the same way
it is for wheat. In the end the final job of judging between wheat and weeds is
none of our business and naming some ultimately good and others ultimately evil or dividing along the us and them line might just mean we have
some weeds in our wheat as well. Maybe that is the point of the parable on a
more personal level. We are weed and wheat, saint and sinner, and only God can
pull out one without uprooting the other.
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