In the parable of the wheat and tares the servants of the householder were told to let both grow together until the harvest, lest in rooting up the worthless, they destroy the other also. Does this mean a call to procrastination, to the acceptance of a process which must take time and ensure delay? Not if we take it in conjunction with another statement by Jesus. Turning from the human aspect to the divine, he reminded his disciples that not in the future, but now, is the separation of evil from good. "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." The harvest, then, depends upon ourselves, upon our own ability to know that it is here.
In confirmation of this statement, Mary Baker Eddy has written on page 11 of "Unity of Good," "Jesus required neither cycles of time nor thought in order to mature fitness for perfection and its possibilities."
Jesus commended his disciples to look up if they would see the harvest white for reaping. Only the clear, uplifted vision, which banishes all dullness and selfishness, timidity and blindness, can speed the process of separating truth from error, that the bread of Life may be distributed to those who are hungering to receive it.
