The Wheat and the Tares
He put before them another parable: The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field, but while everybody was asleep an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?' He answered, 'An enemy has done this.' The slaves said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he replied, 'No, for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'
Matthew 13:24-30
Tares were a weed that looked almost identical to wheat until harvest. Jesus told this to a crowd asking the oldest question there is: why does evil grow right alongside good?
God sees the evil in the field and chooses patience, not because he ignores it but because he refuses to lose one stalk of wheat while pulling weeds. Judgment is real, but it belongs to the harvest and to the Lord of it.
Stop appointing yourself the weed-puller of other people's lives. Grow where you are planted, even in a mixed field, and trust the Owner to sort the harvest.