FROM THE TREE TO THE CROSS

Matthew 13:24-30“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

What is this parable really about
Jesus was not just telling a story about the end of the world; He gave us a masterclass on the hidden nature of the human soul.
​He commanded: “Let both grow together until the harvest.” Why?
the field is a theater of becoming. The plant itself is choosing its identity.
Will they choose to become a wheat or a tare in the end.

To understand the tragedy of this parable, you must understand why he specifically used the plant called a tare. A tare—specifically the darnel weed common to the Levant—is a botanical imposter. it looks exactly like a stalk of wheat. It shares the same soil, drinks the same rain, and sways in the same wind. But when the time of harvest arrives, the tare produces no grain. It is an empty husk, mimicking life but harboring death, because the tare is in fact poisonous

A single stalk of wheat can sprout and grow up surrounded by a field of tares and even begin to think that it must also be a tare,
(our nature is to blend in and feel like we are a part of our surroundings and that we belong)
Surrounded by empty weeds, the wheat looks around and assumes, “This must be what I am. I must also be made to be unfruitfull ” It can be deceived by the sheer volume of the counterfeits around it but only if it allows itself to be decieved.

We are the wheat surrounded by tares (evil spirits and evil people) who try to decieve us and convince us that its not necessary to produce fruit and become what our creator designed and desires us to be.

The sad truth is that they have been so convincing at this peer pressure and deception that many have failed to remain a stalk of wheat and instead became a tare.
Generations now have allowed themselves to be compromised by this lie. They have absorbed the nature of the weeds. But here is the magnificent truth of the Creator’s design: deception does not rewrite DNA. The wheat was spoken into existence to flower and bloom. Each one was individualy designed named and loved before time even began.
A true tare was not, a tare was designed to be a poisonous parasitic mimic of the wheat, it will always remain a tare, no matter how perfectly it disguises itself amongst the wheat.
But the true wheat, even if battered and confused, still possesses its unchangeable potential.

This brings us to another hidden meaning to the parable:
The allowance of time.
God allows us to grow together, seemingly unsupervised.
​We look at the chaos of the world and cry out, “Where is the Farmer? Why doesn’t He pull the weeds right now?” But consider the wisdom in the silence. There is an old saying that goes, when the cat’s away the mice will play.
If God was visible and present like a farmer guarding his field holding the sickle of judgment for all to see, then the tares would not reveal and expose themselves, and the corrupted wheat, those harboring secret desires to mingle with the weeds would never have the courage to show their true heart and become one of them.

We are in the dark about our creator and his plans because we need to be let loose and be completely unhindered in order to truly reveal what we are made of, and capable of.
What we are harboring inside that only our soul and time can reveal through our words and deeds in the changing seasons where we get comfortable or complacent enough to let our true selves shine through

God withdraws His visible presence because He is not after fearful compliance; He is after authentic character. We are left in the apparent dark, unhindered and loose, so that the secret desires of our hearts can fully bloom. The soul is like a photographic film—it develops in the dark. It is only in the absence of the visible and spiritual light that we show the universe what we are truly made of.
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THE CRUCIBLE OF TIME
And what is Time? Time is not a cage or prison; it is a crucible of molten metal designed to allow the casting and molding of you.
Time was created for the sole purpose of giving us a canvas upon which to paint our choices. We must endure the changing seasons, the bitter winters of sorrow and the hot summers of temptation.
Why? Because the harsh seasons forces the root to dig deeper. The changing weather gives us a reason to grow and define ourselves, determining the exact flavor and quality of the fruit we will ultimately become.
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Even if you dont believe in any of this
Even if you think that its all just a man made concoction simply because man has gained the ability to dream and imagine things beyond his local sphere.
I only ask that you pause and look at the portrait of Jesus. He remains the ultimate persona of goodness and redemption that humanity could ever strive for. The Father’s never-ending love for the Son is the highest ideal of love begetting love.
We see from every example of the words and parables that he spoke, that above all else he desires that we see each other as the father sees the son.

A universe can not be planned or designed without empathy, a Creator cannot simply build a machine and then walk away; a true creator must put himself in the shoes and eyes of his creation in order to see what they need and what its like to be helpless and dependent on the love and kindness of the one who created them.
The Incarnation—God wrapping Himself in the dust of the earth and becoming a mortal man is the ultimate act of Divine Empathy. He taught us by example how to love by loving us first.
And this was his final command: to love one another as he loved us.
We are meant to emulate Him. We did not create our fellow man, but we are commanded to view him with the same empathy and love of a creator. We are to look at the brokenness, the needs, and the feelings of others as if we were responsible for them.
We will never be all knowing and without flaw or mistake in missing an error in our choices or an opportunity in the betterment or treatment of each other. Only God can do that , but we are supposed to aspire to be like him as much as we are able.
we are called to gaze at the perfection of His love and echo it, even if its only into the dark and to the weeds.
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”