1356B: Other Things Entering In
We mean well, and we schedule things often with good intentions, but "other things enter in" and they take precedence. What Jesus is saying in this parable is that these other things entering in, though apparently harmless, are killers in disguise, and unless we slow down, reschedule our lives, and learn to recognize which are weeds and which are not, we will go through the whole planting season, wait on the spring rains, watch the green sprouts begin to push their heads against the stubborn dirt, and never realize that the entire crop is poisoned with thorny weeds, that simply, quietly entered in.