Bible in a Year:
Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree.
I ran into an old friend who told me what hed been up to, but I confess it seemed too good to be true. Within a few months of that conversation, however, his band was everywherefrom charting top singles on the radio to having a hit song pulsing under TV ads. His rise to fame was meteoric.
We can be obsessed with significance and successthe big and the dramatic, the quick and the meteoric. But the parables of the mustard seed and yeast compare the way of the kingdom (Gods reign on earth) to small, hidden, and seemingly insignificant things whose work is slow and gradual.
The kingdom is like its King. Christs mission culminated in His life, like a seed, being buried in the ground; like yeast, being hidden in the dough. Yet He rose. Like a tree breaking through the dirt, like bread when the heat is turned up. Jesus rose.
Were invited to live according to His way, the way thats persisting and permeating. To resist the temptation to take matters into our own hands, to grasp for power and to justify our dealings in the world by the outcomes they may produce. The outcomea tree . . . that the birds come and perch in its branches (v. 32) and the bread that provides a feastwill be Christs doing, not ours.
What small and seemingly insignificant things could you do to encourage or bless the people in your life? Where do you need to turn away from comparison with others or from a false picture of significance and success?
Dear Jesus, thank You for often working in small, hidden, and seemingly insignificant ways. Help me to trust Youre at work even when I cant see You. Grant me the grace to remain faithful.
Good evening Mayor ((HUGS))
Thanks for keeping us in the GOOD WORD.
Hope all is well with you.
Good evening/morning, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.
We have almost made it to the weekend, and I can’t wait!