The Kingdom Of God Is A Messy Mix

One reader commented on my blog thought from yesterday.

Reader:  Maybe all these references about small things making a big difference means I can quite working so hard and worrying so much about whether or not I am faithful. Taking a blessed breath and sitting quietly letting God given ingredients work might be a better choice. Stressing and striving are exhausting.

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By golly I think you’ve Got it!  

You have hit the nail smack on the head!  So, every morning tell yourself just that!  Because you are correct! 

Now we can talk about this next part of Matthew 13 where Jesus talks about the other side of the story.  What happens after all of life’s choice are made.  After we have worried about our lack of perfectness.  After we have decided the imperfectness of others.  After we have tried to take on God’s job of working his possibilities, in that  tiny seeds of faith, he planted in us from the very beginning of our lives.  

Then, remember the temptations Jesus faced just after he was baptized?  All four temptations  were to replace God.  When we judge ourselves and others we yield to those same temptation.

47 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; 48 when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad. 49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 50 and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 51 "Have you understood all this?" They answered, "Yes."( Matt. 13:47-51)

51 "Have you understood all this?”  Jesus asks his closest disciples.  

Now remember, all of these little parables used unacceptable analogies to talk about what the kingdom of heaven was like.  Which tells me that we are living in a world full of fish of every kind! That is what the kingdom of heaven is like.  Lot and lots of imperfect kinds of humans!  The good, the bad and the ugly!  All mixed together until the harvest.  So, we have to be extremely careful about being the judge of what is “bad” — “evil”  and “good” —  or “righteous”. 

It is not our job to divided the catch.  The angels will take care of that one day.  We are here to live in the amazing grace of God!  We are here to trust in his activity in our lives.  Trust that he will keep us with him;  guiding and supporting our desire to be his child. Trust/faith is the only thing that counts!  Not worry,  not striving,  not working hard to be good.  

What makes up the kingdom of heaven is this messy mix in us of weed and wheat.  

That is what the kingdom of heaven is like!