Jesus spoke to the crowds very often about the Kingdom of God. He was talking about what it will be like when all creation recognizes and acknowledges God as the creator and the source of life.
The parables talk about the journey into God’s Kingdom — how we are to live in order to make that Kingdom come to be.
In the parable about the seeds and the weeds, Jesus teaches a lesson about being slow to judge and having patience. Each of us probably can think of a time when we jumped to a conclusion and judged someone incorrectly. We also have times when we had given up on someone, and then they changed their way of
living.
What Jesus is trying to teach his disciples is this important truth. God’s grace often works in ways we do not know. Before a person changes, God’s grace does a great deal of preparation work in the person’s heart. That preparation work is not always visible to other people.
Some people, at a certain stage in life, figure that they do not need any religion. In fact, some people think that they do not even need God. But gradually, those people find a growing loneliness in their hearts or become very aware of the limits of their own strength and wisdom. Then they change.
As members of God’s family — people being made holy by the power of the Holy Spirit in their hearts — we really do have to help each other find the Way to God. God expects us to be both patient and demanding of each other. We have to call each other to live up to the promises of our baptism, and at the same time
realize that life is a growing process.
If we do not expect a good and holy life from each other or if we fail to be patient as God’s grace works, then we will end up judging each other and trying to cut each other off from the community of believers.
One way to help the community grow is this: Keep your attention on where we need to go and hardly look at where we have failed. Dreams shared and hope held together are far more powerful than blaming and shaming each other. Only on the last day will we see clearly the difference between weeds and seeds.