Matthew 13:24–30
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel also among the wheat, and went away. But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel appeared also. The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
This passage teaches that good and evil will coexist until the final judgment. It’s not our job to purge evil. It’s our job to spread good news. To grow. To train. To stay spiritually fit.
This passage teaches that good and evil will coexist until the final judgment. It is not our job to purge evil. It is our job to spread good news, to grow, to train, and to stay spiritually fit.
THE RING IS REAL
Recovery is a spiritual fight. Not a moral one. Not a logical one. It is a fight for influence. The adversary does not care how smart you are; he cares how spiritually grounded you are. When your spiritual health is low, when grace feels distant and clarity is fogged, the adversary does not merely whisper. He walks into the ring like a 100-kilogram, six-foot-four MMA fighter, eighty per cent muscle, trained in exploiting emotional fractures. And we are just us—tired, distracted, and spiritually malnourished.
But what if you have been training? What if you have been exercising your spiritual muscles through grace, surrender, service, prayer, or even simple and honest reflection? What if your spiritual telemetry is online, scanning for sabotage and tuned to a divine frequency? Then the ring changes. A thousand-foot, seven-tonne being steps in. Ninety-nine per cent muscle. Seven eyes around his head. He drops a silk jacket with the word GOD stitched across the back and squashes the adversary like an ant.
WHEAT AND WEEDS
Jesus says, “Let both grow together until the harvest.” That is recovery. You do not get to purge all the weeds. You do not get to sterilise the ring. You train. You grow. You stay spiritually fit. The adversary will always be there, but so will grace.
FOR THE NON-BELIEVER
You do not need to believe in a creationist God to feel this truth. Call it clarity. Call it higher purpose. Call it the part of you that is bigger than chaos. When that part is active, the adversary loses his grip. When it is dormant, he is in charge.
SO WHO IS WALKING IN WITH YOU?
If you are walking into the ring today, ask yourself who is walking in with you. Recovery is not about removing evil. It is about training for grace and allowing the wheat to grow stronger than the weeds.
About Jason Bresnehan
Jason writes in a modular, mind‑drift style that moves between business, recovery, faith, anthropology, and the oddities of everyday life without warning or apology. His work blends operator‑grade clarity with sideways narrative turns — the kind that start in a boardroom, drift through Scripture or Tasmanian riverbanks, and land in a piece of doctrine you didn’t see coming.
He has spent years helping organisations and people get unstuck, and his writing reflects the same instinct: take something messy, name it cleanly, and make it usable. His pieces — whether on addiction, Catholic symbolism, business operators, or human quirks — aren’t lectures. They’re field notes. Observations. Fragments designed for real people in real moments, including the tired executive delayed in an airport lounge at 11:45pm.
Jason publishes micro‑chapters as he writes them — standalone pieces that don’t follow a cadence or a theme. They accumulate over time into a larger body of work, shaped by curiosity, faith, operator discipline, and a refusal to perform — just get outcomes.
Founder of the Hadspen Foundation, Jason is committed to building frameworks for spiritual recovery that are both repeatable and personal. His writing is guided by discernment, narrative cadence, and the belief that doctrine should support—not overshadow—the human story.