Soil Mechanics

The tares are weeds growing in our heart, competing with the good seed, making the wheat harder to find. But the owner did not want to pull out the tares, knowing that the wheat would be ruined as well. In the same way, we cannot extract the evil from our heart. We must wait until the day when He removes evil from us.

But Jesus taught how we are to deal with evil now. In the parable of the sower, the seed grew well where the soil was good to grow in, and it did poorly where the soil was hostile. The soil is our heart; we can make a place for the good seed to grow. We can also make a hostile place for the tares; we choose what we give ourselves to.

This is the point in Romans 6.

"Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God."
Romans 6:12-13

Jesus taught about anxiety, giving direction on what we can do. We cannot remove the evil, but we can direct ourselves in another path. He is addressing the soil of the parable, our heart; the kingdom is cultivated, but the weeds are not.

In the same way, when Jesus taught about murder, He addressed the soil of the parable, our heart. We cannot remove the evil, but we are given direction to make our heart a hostile place for hate.

When Jesus taught about adultery, He again addressed the soil of the parable, our heart. We cannot remove the evil, but we can remove what is giving evil an opportunity.

When Jesus taught about vows, He again addressed the soil of the parable, our heart. Even a small expression of pride in a foolish tradition is evil. We can choose to change what we say; in that the evil withers.

These are the means to deal with tares; neither we nor angels can pull them from our heart. But our heart is the soil in which the tares grow; we can make our heart a hard place for tares to grow in. The mechanisms are the soil mechanics of our heart.

Jesus taught this because He did this. He was man; He struggled with what we struggle with, and He overcame. The devil sowed his lies in Jesus in the wilderness; Jesus did not let them grow.

What Jesus taught are the mechanics to overcome; what He taught works in men. The kingdom of God is near; we can find it at work in us.