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In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of the wheat and the weeds. A farmer sows good seed, but during the night an enemy scatters weeds among the crop. When the servants notice what has happened, they want to pull up the weeds immediately. But the farmer tells them to wait, because in uprooting the weeds they might also damage the wheat.![]()
Jesus is teaching us something important about patience, judgement and hope.![]()
We often want everything to be clear and immediate. We want good people to be rewarded, wrongdoing to be punished and every problem to be quickly resolved. We may also be tempted to divide people into two simple groups: the good and the bad, the wheat and the weeds.![]()
But human hearts are more complicated than that. There is goodness and weakness in each one of us. There are times when we bear good fruit, and other times when selfishness, anger or sin take root within us.![]()
God is patient because he sees what we cannot see. He knows the whole story of every human person. He knows the wounds they carry, the struggles they face and the possibilities for conversion that still remain.![]()
God’s patience does not mean that good and evil are the same. The farmer clearly knows the difference between wheat and weeds. However, he refuses to destroy the wheat through impatient and careless action.![]()
Wheat and weeds grow intermingled in the field. And so it is also in the Church of God. The Church is made up of sinners called to become saints. Holiness and weakness, generosity and selfishness, faith and doubt can be found not only among different people, but often within the same human heart.![]()
This parable therefore reminds us not to give up too quickly on other people, and not to give up on ourselves. Someone who appears far from God today may become a saint tomorrow. A life that seems confused or unfruitful may still be transformed by grace.![]()
Our task is not to pass judgement before the final harvest. That judgement belongs to God alone. Our task is to remain rooted in Christ, to keep growing in goodness and charity, and to bear the fruits of faith, hope and love.![]()
At the harvest – that is, on Judgement Day – the truth of every life will be fully revealed. We shall discover who was wheat and who was weed. And perhaps we shall be greatly surprised: by those whom God has saved, by the hidden goodness we failed to recognise in others, and by the mercy through which we ourselves are welcomed into his harvest despite all our weaknesses and shortcomings.![]()
Let us ask the Lord to make us patient with others, honest about our own failings and confident that, through his grace and merciful love, our lives can still bear good fruit as we grow in the likeness of Christ and follow him more faithfully.
