Wheat and weeds: Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a field in which good seed has been sowed. However, while his men were sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat. What a realistic picture of the world and even more of the field of our heart. Wheat and weeds grow side by side. God sows the wheat and the devil, the weeds. He is always on the prowl to destroy what is good. He attacks us when we are "asleep", not on our guard. We must be vigilant. Failure to see the weeds growing and the urge to uproot them can ruin the wheat too because both look similar until harvest time. The day of reckoning will sort them out: the weeds burned and the wheat stored in barns.