The wheat and chaff in us all

Morning: Psalms 93, 96; 2 Kings 4:8-37; Acts 9:10-31

Evening: Psalm 34; Luke 3:7-18

A casing protects wheat until it is ripe; then that casing dries up and is blown away as chaff.  Luke’s Jesus gathers the wheat and burns the chaff with ‘unquenchable fire’.  This sounds bad, but only if you think the wheat is the good folks and the chaff is the unworthy folks.  That is a horrendous thought.  NO!  Surely the ‘wheat’ is spiritual maturity and the ‘chaff’ are the missteps through which we all mature.  The chaff does its job, then we no longer need it.  But it will take a big ‘fire’ to burn it all!