Growing Together

There are online games that allow players to chat with one another and unfortunately, some unscrupulous people try to build a relationship with others in order to victimize them. I’ll admit that I was once suckered into building a chat-relationship with a fictitious player and I learned a valuable lesson. I discovered I can still play the game with these frauds; I just don’t chat or build a relationship with them. The Parable of the Weeds is applicable. A man’s enemy sowed weeds among good seeds that were planted in his field, “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. 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’” (Matt 13:28b-30 NIV).