Let Both Grow Together

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."  (Matthew 13:30 NKJV)

The older we get in our walk with Christ, the less tolerable seems the ever-presence of evil in our world.  Am I the only one who feels that way?  

Jesus reminds us in this parable though that, while it is the will of the Lord for us to dwell in this evil world for a while, it won't be forever. 

Let both grow together UNTIL… what a glorious word that is… UNTIL the harvest, UNTIL the judgement, UNTIL the King returns and gathers us to Him and gets rid of all that is evil once and for all. 

I hope that thought encourages you as it does me.  Because, as the Oakridge Boys sing:

Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon,

Many will meet their doom, trumpets will sound.

All of the dead shall rise, righteous meet in the sky,

Going where no one dies, Heavenward bound!