Matthew 13:24-30

“He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The slaves said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he replied, ‘No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn”’ (Matthew 13:24-30).

Comment:

This New Revised Standard Version translation is clearer, I think, about the terms that confused you in the King James Version. The parable is about wheat and weeds. Metaphysically, our consciousness is innately 'planted' with divine ideas—and the kingdom of heaven is the result of our willingness to nourish and harvest these divine ideas. What complicates the process is that our own sense consciousness plants fear-based ideas that also take root and grow. Rather than destroying them all, wisdom would have us sort them according to how they express in our lives. The wheat—the divine ideas—is nourishing and productive. The consequences of the weeds are fearful thoughts of limitation, lack, separation, and punishment. These weed-like thoughts are to be burned—not as punishment, but for purification, so they can be returned to their base energy and re-emerge with the potential to become seeds of wheat.

Blessings!

Rev. Ed