Wheat and Tares Leave a Comment / Devotional So much can be seen in a photographLooking through the trees to the recently cut field, in the backgroundThe grass lifted to provide food for the cattle at a later dateBut in the foreground we see nettles and weedsGrowing in the same soil as the trees they grow up aroundMatthew 13:24 – 30Jesus tells a parable about the wheat and the taresOne, the wheat, will produce a GOOD cropThe other, the tares, are BADIn life and in the church there will be both wheat and taresBoth will grow up togetherThe true wheat will always be wheatFor at its heart, its very being, it IS wheatSo with us who call ourselves ChristianFollowers of Jesus ChristBorn again, believers, those who ARE a NEW creation2 Corinthians 5:17 & 18aWe are the “wheat”Because it is our heart, our very beingA new creation – HIS