"Wheat and weeds together sown, here for joy or sorrow grown" is a line from a well-known harvest hymn. Roses and honeysuckle blossom in soil that is alive with ground elder and nettles. That's how it is in my garden… and I detect the pattern elsewhere.

Everywhere we look, good and bad, harmony and disagreement can be found alongside each other. At Harvest time the ripe fruits and full shelves of Ashtead share one world with the refugee camps of Kosovo and the parched earth of Sudan and Ethiopia.

It seems that we live in a good world, but one with a flaw running through it. Unhappily that thought is true not only of our world but also of our hearts and minds. I find myself struggling with a mixture of motives and desires, some of which I know to be good while others are evil.

We are a mixed up people in a mixed up world and we need sorting out for both our own good and the wellbeing of others. Hunger and disease don't only follow floods and droughts, often human sinfulness is the cause as we rape the rain-forests and pollute the atmosphere.

So who can sort us out? Who can change human nature? Who is able to promise "a new heaven and a new earth"? Who offers forgiveness for past defeat and the gift of a new start in life? Who is the source of peace and hope? Who will do the gardening for me in my own heart, rooting out the weeds that grow there?

Jesus Christ holds the good seed of the answer to all those questions. He says, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry and he who believes in me will never be thirsty." (John 6 verse 35).

Why not trust Him? I do.