08/29/2026
“Let both grow together until the harvest.” Matthew 13:30
Jesus says this in the parable of the wheat and the w**ds. The servants wanted to pull up what they believed were w**ds, but the master warned them not to, because in doing so they might uproot the wheat too.
Let it grow. Earlier this summer, I had plants coming up that I thought were w**ds because I didn’t remember plant these in a straight line😂. So I pulled them.
Thankfully, I decided to leave a couple behind. I wasn’t sure what they were, but I thought, Let’s just see what they do.
And this is what they became.
Flowers.🌺 Something I almost threw away because I judged it before it had a chance to bloom.
I keep thinking about Matthew 13:30: “Let both grow together until the harvest.”
There’s a lesson tucked into my flower garden that I think God wanted me to see. Sometimes we’re awfully quick to decide what belongs and what doesn’t.
We look at something in its beginning stages and call it a w**d because it doesn’t look like much yet. We pull at circumstances we don’t understand. We write off seasons that seem unproductive. Sometimes we even do it to people. But God sees the bloom while we’re still looking at the dirt.
Maybe that thing you thought needed to be pulled out needs a little more time. Maybe the season that looks messy isn’t wasted.
Maybe what appears to be a w**d today simply hasn’t shown you what it is yet.
And there’s another part of this picture I love. Most of them were pulled up…. Their main plant. But these weren’t.
They were given a little soil, a little sunshine, and a little time.
And they bloomed anyway. 💜
Sometimes faith looks less like knowing exactly what God is doing and more like having enough patience to say:
“I don’t know what this is yet, Lord. So I’m going to leave it in Your hands and let it grow.”
Maybe we don’t need to understand everything while it’s growing. Maybe we just need to stop pulling long enough to see what God makes of it.
