Patience in the Coming of the Kingdom, Matthew 13:24-30, 34-43

Grace Anglican Church Gastonia, NC

In the Parable of the Weeds, Jesus says that the Master of the field told his servants to wait until the harvest and to let the weeds grow amongst the wheat. And so the weeds remained with the wheat until the reapers came to separate them from one another. This would take great patience from the servants. Likewise, we too live patiently in the world awaiting the final coming of the Kingdom of God and the return of our master, Jesus. And in living patiently, we discover the Kingdom is working in us to make us more and more like the wheat.

Image: An etching by Jan Luyken illustrating Matthew 13:24-30 in the Bowyer Bible, Bolton, England, Phillip Medhurst, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons.