The reed that bows itself down has not responded to the breath of God.

These are the words that I left off with yesterday. Did those words strike a cord within you?

Isaiah 58:5 English Standard Version (ESV) Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

This is the verse I left out yesterday that inspired my thought. 

The image is a field of golden wheat moving to the rhythm of the wind. All those reed stocks moving in unison, wave after wave. If anyone has seen that on a sun lite field it is memorable.

Now for the message.

Matthew 13:24-30 English Standard Version

The Parable of the Weeds

24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

Matthew 11:15 English Standard Version (ESV) He who has ears to hear, let him hear.