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Distinguishing the Wheat From the Tares

by Tonja Taylor
5/08/2023 / Christian Living

He answered, Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be torn up by the roots.--Matthew 15:13, AMPC

Matthew 13:26-30, talk about an enemy sowing weeds into a farmer's good field. The master says to let them grow until a certain time.

This is what I had to do in my garden this year. I had combined organic bought soil with compost soil that had been created from food scraps, local dirt, etc.

At first, I thought there were many, many weeds springing up, but then I had a shot of hope in my heart that, maybe, just maybe, these were tiny food-bearing plants! So, I patiently waited until the plants were big enough for me to (overall) tell the difference between them.

As the got mature enough for me to distinguish the weeds from the good plants, I realized I had at least 50 tiny baby tomato plants! However, there were many that were just weeks (tares), so I took an hour one cool morning, and used my hoe and my hands and uprooted those weeds, which would only hinder the good plants.

So it is with the "weeds" in our lives. If we let them keep growing, they will hinder and can even strangle--and cause to be completely unproductive!--the good things in our lives!

Some things are apparent, but other "weeds" require the wisdom of God, to recognize and root up. The LORD will always help us with this, for His Plan from the Beginning was the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1)!

Much more than a physical garden, we must recognize, renounce, and remove the weeds from our spirits, souls, and bodies. The Spirit of Truth (John 16) will help us with this. It can be a painful process--just like trying to remove a tree, or even a long vine or briar--but it is so worth it.

¹³But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].--John 16:13, AMPC

Once I could tell the good plants from the bad, I removed the bad, or unproductive ones (Sometimes things are not necessarily "bad", but just steal from the better and best things in our lives. We need the wisdom of God to know this, and take action as He leads.), I saw the good ones start growing more quickly. They had more room to grow, and were getting the nutrients that the bad ones had been taking.

It gives me satisfaction to go to my garden and know that--just like the LORD has been helping me in every part of life, as I've cooperated with Him--I have only good things growing, that will bear much fruit!

Through books, courses, presentations, service, prayer, worship, and more, Tonja and her husband live to exalt God. Her series for girls, P.O.W.E.R. GIRL ADVENTURES, is now out (books I-V), along with LEGACY; YOUR HOLY HEALTH: VISIONS OF THE KING, and more. See the "River Rain Creative" YT channel.

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