“The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.". (Matthew 13: 24 - 25).
The man who sowed good seed in his field in this parable is God. The enemy who sneaked in at night and sowed weeds is the devil.
The question is: Why will an all powerful God allow the devil to spoil the work of His hands? This and similar questions bother many people of good will. The Church has grappled with the mystery of evil most of her history and at the end has concluded that evil is indeed a mystery. But the question never goes away.
Why did God allow the division in the Body of Christ?
Why does God permit slavery and abuse of children?
Why did God permit the Holocaust?
Why did God allow such a horrible agony and death of Jesus on the Cross? It goes on and on.
"While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off." (Matthew 13: 27).
We know that God never sleeps nor slumbers. What is going on here? When Jesus was asked what happened, "He answered, ‘An enemy has done this." (Matthew 13: 28). An answer full of mystery.
The Church explains the difficult mystery of Evil thus:
"The fact that God permits physical and even moral evil is a mystery that God illuminates by his Son Jesus Christ who died and rose to vanquish evil. Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life." (CCC 324).
Can you find a better insight into the mystery of Evil?
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