Soul Speak #31 (Aug 20/20) The "field" or "garden" within. Parable of the Wheat and Tares considered

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Some thoughts from my morning walk.... The "field" or "garden" within. I got to pondering the parable of the wheat and the tares this morning and what it might mean when we apply it from the perspective of "the kingdom within".
Most of us have been taught to read scripture with an "outward" literal view... what is going on in the world around us. Good and bad people in the world. But I see Jesus mainly teaching about an "inward" world... the one inside of us, the duality we content with on a daily basis in our minds.
What if the field is within us, speaking to that duality of having "wheat and tares" growing inside of us? The fact that the parable says to not go out and try to pluck the tares, but allow for the angels (messengers of light) to do it at the end of the harvest? Jesus also said that there was no need to wait 4 more months, as the harvest is ready.
The field of our heart is always ready for the heavenly workers to separate the wheat from the tares within us, and fill the storehouse with GOOD seed.
One reason why I don't think of an outward, literal interpretation of this parable is, that the disciples were basically told to leave their hands off the field, and let the angels do the separating. Let the Holy Spirit do the work within us.
I see a problem with the way the great commission is often carried out... in a sense it is workers attempting to separate wheat from tares, and in a lot of ways by coercion and guilt-ing people into a decision for Jesus. This generally only produces a harvest of religious behaviour as opposed to the abundant flowing life of Christ from within.
I believe if we would tend to our own gardens within, it would have a greater impact of what flows out of us...without the need to manipulate people into agreeing and aligning themselves to the way we believe, and then declaring them "saved".
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Saved, to me means the bringing of the soul (psyche, from which we get the word psychological) into wholeness, soundness, fullness. If you have noticed, heaven and hell is a phenomenon that takes place in our psychological (soul) realm.
Thoughts create these states of being. That's why something as simple as a "ray of light" (inspiration) can snap a person out of deep depression.
Anyway... I am fascinated how rich the meaning of scripture becomes to me when I see it from an internal perspective.
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And then there is this whole thing about "Judging" in the Bible. Jesus often said to "not judge" people by their outward appearance. Matthew 7.
I don't know about you, but I used to be guilty of doing this. And at one point, I became aware that in every way I judged someone else, I was immediately convicted about something in me. We simply cannot make a judgement about a person, without incriminating ourselves.
As Christians we also do this all the time in judging people as "unsaved". Think about this on a deeper level.
Matt 7:1 Do not judge, lest you should be judged. 2For with that verdict you pronounce, you will be judged; and with that measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
3 And why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye, but not notice the beam in your own eye? 4 Or how shall you say to your brother, ‘Permit that I might cast out the splinter from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your eye? 5 Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the splinter from the eye of your brother.
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There is that focus again... first, work on your own stuff (perpetually, btw). Get that taken care of by the messengers within. Let them remove the tares, let them remove the beam.
And what then will the "see clearly" look like? Ahh, I can only imagine...