Becoming Mo

“Let both grow together until the harvest.” — Matthew 13:30

There’s a parable Jesus told – about a farmer who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat. When the plants began to grow, the weeds showed up too. Naturally, the workers were alarmed. “Should we pull out the weeds?” they asked.

“No,” said the farmer. “You might uproot the wheat if you do. Let both grow together until the harvest. Then we’ll separate them.”

How often do we cry out to God in frustration —

“Lord, take this away!”

“That has got to go Lord!”

The difficult person.

The toxic environment.

The hard season.

The lingering pain.

We plead for Him to uproot what’s hurting us. And yet, sometimes… nothing changes. At least, not right away. We begin to wonder if He hears us. We feel stuck, ignored, even disappointed.

But maybe – just maybe – God’s silence is protection. Maybe His “No” is a tender “Not yet…hold on…trust me.”

Some weeds are allowed to stay – not because He can’t remove them, but because removing them too early might harm the good seed He planted in us.

That struggling child, that tiring marriage, that unfulfilling job or business, etc., might just be soil where deeper faith is growing.

God, like the wise farmer, sees the harvest before we do. He knows that at full maturity, wheat and weeds will no longer look alike.

He will separate them in His time.

So what do we do while we wait?

We keep growing.

We rise above the weeds.

Don’t let the weeds choke your purpose. Let your life speak of resilience. Let your roots go deeper. Trust that a separation is coming. The weeds may surround you, but they don’t have to define you.

Keep Becoming!