lukaswide37
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From the Gospel of Saint Matthew.
Jesus also told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like a man
who sowed good seed in his field. While the people were sleeping, the enemy came, sowed
weeds among the wheat, and left. When the corn sprouted and sprouted ears, the weeds also appeared
.
Then the servants went to the owner and asked, "Sir! After all, you sowed good seed
in the field. So where did the weed come from?” And he replied, "It is the work of the enemy."
Then the servants said, "Do you want us to go and snatch him?"
He replied: « No. For when you gather the weeds, you might uproot the wheat with it. Let
them grow together until the harvest. And at harvest time I will say to the reapers: Gather the weeds first,
bind them in sheaves, and burn them. But bring the wheat into my barn."
Today, brothers and sisters, we have a very difficult task, because these readings,
as you can see, are somewhat related to each other by a similar gesture. Moses concludes the Covenant
between God and Israel by sprinkling, as if shedding drops, the blood of an animal,
as if he were sowing blood on the people. And with this gesture of sowing seeds by the sower,
these two readings, however, deal with a very difficult problem and it certainly requires precise
pronunciation on my part, but also some attention on your part.
A wrong understanding of this problem can also end badly inside us.
The host in this parable says something unusual. He says that when you gather weeds,
do not uproot the wheat with it. Let them both go on until the harvest. I don't know
if there is any farmer who would really do that,
or if any farmer who actually tills a field would say such words. Well,
in the laws of the soul, in the internal laws, different processes take place than in the laws of nature, of nature.
Nature is only an image here, but we already see clearly that no farmer, a farmer
in his right mind, wise, would behave in such a way that he would leave a field overgrown with weeds
if he was cultivating something, for example, when any crop is cultivated,
no it's in the weeds, it's just constantly weeding it, cleaning it, it's a noble plant.
It's a seemingly simple comparison. The elements of evil are only left in the world because we know
that this field symbolizes the world, because it is through their presence that good matures. Only because the farmer
left the weeds, because the weeds made the wheat grow even higher, more
compelled, more determined to grow. And in the same way, God leaves the elements of evil in the world,
because by their presence good is forced to an even greater good, to grow.
For there is evil that reveals an even greater good, and there is evil attachment to good.
A person can become so attached to what is good that this attachment can be an
even greater evil. There is such evil that affects a person in such a way that in the end a person becomes
noble, good. For it happens that a man has only vices sown into the nature of man, and he, looking
at himself, sees only bad things in himself. He sees that he is imperfect in his outward
form, in his body. That he lacks a lot, that he is perhaps not handsome, beautiful, pretty.
He also sees that he has many internal faults, many bad tendencies, maybe even addictions. And by observing
himself, seeing only the shortcomings in himself, it may happen that in the end this experience
of the defectiveness of his existence will allow the wheat of goodness and humility to grow in him.
No man will humbly look at himself, because he sees that he is actually very small,
very weak, very flawed. And it also happens that thanks to numerous such wheaten virtues,
advantages, qualities, equally physical, material, intellectual or even spiritual or moral, someone
is so pleased with himself that he enters into the greatest vice. The weed
of pride and self-satisfaction appears in his life . And this is what this Gospel says, that everything is not
so simple in the world and that there is such a presence of evil in our lives that leads us to good.
Sometimes there is a good that leads us to bad ways when we take it badly.
For when you have all values and all virtues, you run the risk of the worst vice - pride. And
when you have only vices and imperfections, it does not prevent you from growing in humility. Let's see
moreover, that Old Testament illustration from the first reading, where Moses stands,
sprinkles the people with the blood of a slaughtered animal and says: 'Thanks to this blood we have a covenant
with God', a somewhat strange way of making friends through the death of a creature.
Moses concludes Israel's Covenant with God, obliging them to be faithful to God's words. Sprinkling
the people with the blood of the slain lamb, the death of one creature gives growth and revival to the rest.
But let's ask, simply humanly, can death be creative?
Well, everyone knows it's not. Can dying give birth? Everyone will say no.
Can good fruit come from a bad tree? NO. But can a good tree grow around bad trees?
Does your weedy spiritual life, or your dying for others, make sense?
Can your suffering lead you to happiness in the end?
After all, suffering is not usually just a trial. Suffering usually overwhelms us,
sometimes it kills our hope, it seems to sow tares of doubt in a way that is terrifying to us.
Suffering is also not satisfied with mediocre answers and eliminates superficial
advisers. When a person is suffering, it is not enough for him to say anything
and it is not enough for someone to come and try to advise something in this suffering.
Suffering makes a person look for the most important answers, the truest ones, and
only true friends are left in suffering. Because in poverty only a friend remains.
So, on the one hand, suffering is a powerful experience, a terrible one. On the other hand,
it is a sieve of wisdom and a filter through which only a true friend can pass.
Jesus says in this parable that when you gather weeds and wheat,
you should not uproot them. The farmer clearly says that eliminating weeds from this field
may lead to the fact that the wheat will not be able to stay on the ground.
Misunderstanding this can end badly.