Worthy Brief - September 11, 2026

 Worthy Brief - September 11, 2026

Let both grow together!

Matthew 13:27–30 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' 28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' 29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30  Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."

The servants identified the problem. They had noticed the tares and knew that an enemy was responsible for sowing them. They were also ready to take action. "Shall we go and collect them?" That is the most natural thing to do  -- clear the field and get rid of what does not belong. But the Master says no, not since He is lenient towards the weeds, but rather because He understands something that the servants do not.

The tare Yeshua mentions was likely zizania, or darnel, a weed that looks like young wheat. Its roots get tangled with the wheat below the soil. If you pull one out too soon, you risk pulling up the wheat as well, and you could lose the crop you want to protect.

Yeshua then gives an instruction that calls for greater faith than uprooting weeds: "Let them grow together until the harvest."

Yeshua touches a core truth in His people. In the moment, we want the field cleared. When we see disorder in the world, compromise in the church, and people who appear to be flourishing while doing wrong, we feel the urge to take the sickle. The King says no, not yet, and not you. The harvest has its time and its Reaper; the servants do not.

This does not mean we should tolerate sin in our own lives or ignore what Scripture says about order and discipline in the church. Yeshua makes it clear: “the field is the world.” Until the end of the age, God’s Kingdom and the world’s rebellion will exist together. Wheat and tares. Truth and deception. Righteousness and lawlessness. Revival and resistance. The servants are troubled because they see what does not belong, but the Master stays calm because He knows where history is headed.

Psalm 37 could have been written as commentary on this parable. “Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb” (Psalm 37:1–2). The Hebrew word translated fret is charah (חָרָה)—to burn, to get hot.

David is saying, do not let what the wicked are doing set you on fire inside. God is not unaware or unmoved. Their end is already fixed, and it is coming faster than it looks. Three times in that psalm he says it: do not fret. Then he tells us what to do instead. Trust in the Lord. Delight in the Lord. Commit your way to the Lord. Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. That is what letting both grow together looks like from inside the wheat.

Our Abba can afford it because it is rooted in His character. When God revealed Himself to Moses, He described Himself as erech apayim (אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם), “slow to anger” (Exodus 34:6). The phrase literally means long of nostrils—a picture of someone who takes a long, slow breath before He acts. God is not slow because He is indifferent. He is slow because He is patient, and His patience is mercy. Peter said it plainly: the Lord “is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

In a natural field it is impossible for a tare to turn into wheat. However, in the field of this world, the Lord’s patience has changed a great many tares into wheat. The Pharisee from Tarsus who had been hunting the church became the apostle who wrote a large part of the New Testament. If the servants had been permitted to uproot all those things which seemed to be tares in the year 33, we should never have heard of Paul. That is the hazard of judging too early. We don't only accidentally uproot wheat; we also cut off what God was still intending to accomplish. We cannot see the roots. We cannot see the end from the beginning, but He can. What appears to us in this season to be a tare might, in fact, become wheat.

It doesn't mean that we should take a passive attitude. Yeshua didn't instruct the servants to ignore the tares or treat them as wheat. Instead, he told them to keep looking after the field and leave the work of separating them until harvest time. The wheat has one role: to be wheat. To grow. To produce grain. To remain firmly rooted no matter what else is growing around it. Your task is not to keep an eye on the field, but to be so fruitful that nobody could possibly mistake what you are.

So don't waste your life looking at the weeds. Go on establishing roots. Keep reaching for the light. Keep producing the grain for which the Sower planted you.

If you have been troubled by what you see around you, let the King take that burden from you. His delay is not weakness, but mercy at work and a way to protect the harvest. Trust Him, rejoice in Him, and give your path to Him. Rest. The Master said, “Let both grow together,” and He meant it. He also said, “until the harvest,” and He meant that too. Keep growing; the One who planted you is never in a hurry and is never late.

Shanah Tovah — Happy New Year! As we enter Rosh Hashanah and the Biblical Feast of Trumpets, may this be a season of renewed hope, expectation, and drawing closer to the Lord. Shabbat Shalom, and have a wonderful weekend resting in Him! See you first thing on Monday.

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,

George & Baht Rivka

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