Wheat and Tares

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

Mr. Hoffer's reasoning seems quite sanguine compared to what the Lord says about this evil age.

In His parable of the world system the Lord says:

"But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn" (Matthew 13:25, 30).

It is essential that we are of the wheat variety and not of the tare. Our eternal destiny depends on it. We must do more than try to "tilt the equilibrium toward the good," we must see that Jesus alone is good and all our hope is vested in Him. He is the Resurrection and the Life, He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Him.

When this essential step of faith in Jesus Christ is initiated, we then can do good because His goodness indwells us. It is natural for wheat to produce good as it dwells in the source of its growth. It should be just as natural for God's redeemed people to be as wheat in the world, abiding in Him, producing His good.

Tares beware! the time for the harvest is set.