Tonight's episode was told in a flashback to the President's campaign interspersed with scenes from the present day as Gideon and David, in separate investigations, tracked the story of Amanda Tanner's supposed suicide. "The Trail" is as apt a title as any for an episode that provided so much information, a "trail," if you will, of everything that has happened to get me to this point as well as where the show's headed next week.
When Billy Chambers, the VP's Chief of Staff ( played by Matt Letscher), informed Sally Langston ( played by Kate Burton) who was running for President, that he had something on Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III (played by Tony Goldwyn who was also running for president), she didn't want to hear it. Fitzgerald Thomas Grant had just asked her to be his Vice President and so she had to work with him and wasn't competing with him anymore.
Billy Chambers wasn't having it. He insisted that Sally Langston had to use it, and she told him about this parable, which I had to take note. It's from Matthew 13:24-30, and it says-
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn."
The following verses explain the above parable.
Matthew 13:36-43
37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
Sometimes you have to work with people who don't share your vision, your goals, or your values. I know this firsthand. I'm not going to worry about the weeds-those evil, back-stabbing troublemakers that I encounter in my life because I count myself among the righteous, and I'm going to shine like the sun. That's what the Bible tells me. Along the way, God has plucked those weeds right out of my way.
Are you the wheat or are you the weeds?
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