Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
“Whoever has ears ought to hear,” Jesus tells the disciples in Matthew 13:43 after explaining, in painstaking detail, the parable of the weeds. Good sower = Jesus; good seed = God’s children; weeds = evil one’s children, and so on.
Check, check, and check. Honestly, it makes you wonder if the disciples could have found their way home without Jesus.
On second thought, there’s no need to wonder. They couldn’t find their way home without Him. They were like sheep without a shepherd. He understood that, and that’s why He was so patient with questions that would have frustrated even Captain Obvious.
While Jesus’s use of parables may be clear to us from the distance of a couple thousand years and a whole lot of hearing the Word proclaimed and studying it, we are in precisely the same place as the sometimes clueless disciples.
We can’t find our way home without Him either. May we open our ears to His direction.
