We are to live among the tares until the harvest at the end of the age, as Jesus instructed, “[L]est while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest” (Mt 13:29, 30a). But, as we live among tares, have we become assimilated with them? Do we still shine forth as the wheat that await the harvester’s coming?

Sin often leaves us feeling like spiritual lepers—unclean, unworthy of God’s love, ashamed. Yet God is willing to touch us if we come before Him.

Let us not be fooled by the salt water of this world—the sinful activities that satisfy but for a moment. Who can we turn to for real water which can truly satisfy us?

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world. —2 Timothy 4:10

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. —2 Timothy 1:7

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I <br>have loved you, that you also love one another. —John 13:34