It Is What It Is

Matthew 13:24-30

[24] Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

[25] But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

[26] When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

[27] "The owner's servants came to him and said, `Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?'

[28] "`An enemy did this,' he replied. "The servants asked him, `Do you want us to go and pull them up?'

[29] "`No,' he answered, `because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them.

[30] Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.'"

Romans 9:22-24

[22] What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction?

[23] What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory--

[24] even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

The purpose of the "weeds" is to make the chosen children grow.

This IS the word of God.

Does this bother you?

Romans 9:14-16

[14] What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!

[15] For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

[16] It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

[17] For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

[18] Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

[19] One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"

[20] But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, `Why did you make me like this?'"

[21] Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

Do you trust Him?

It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

You can't if you don't know Him...and you aren't called.

He is know able.

However, like anyone else, if you refuse to accept Him as He is, but make Him out to be someone else, He is not going to like it.

No, actually He hates it.

No one likes to be ignored.

Where do you think we get that?