Matthew 13 offers us several of the Lord Jesus’ parables. This episode examines one of those…the parable of the wheat and the tares/weeds. The Lord gives us the instruction to pay careful attention to His interpretation of the parable.

The parable has an application for us in the here and now. We live in the time before the wheat and tares will be permanently separated. What does it mean for us to know that good and evil are growing up, side-by-side, in our time?

We examine the current phenomena of “doomscrolling.” It is, in light of this parable, a lopsided way to view the events of our world. It concentrates on bad news and ignores the good. A “spiritual prescription” is offered….Isaiah 26:3