Possibility Begins Small

In the next few days  we will investigate the possibilities of growth in God’s Kingdom through the the parables of the mustard seed; and the yeast that fills the flour with the possibility.   What I am hoping, in this discussion, is that you will see some commonality.   As well as some insight into how God works.  Some of it will be easy to read.  Some of it will give you pause. 

I will write about the possibility in a tiny seed.

31 He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; 32 it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” (Matt. 13)

First of all the mustard seed is an unwelcome seed that finds its way into a bag of good seed.  It is one of the fastest growing seed in the arid soil of Israel.  It not only grows fast but it grow larger than most weeds.  Like a tree!  It is something the farmer would not want in his field!

So this analogy might seem a little strange since Jesus has just talked about the problem of the wheat and the weeds growing in the farmers field.  And yet Jesus seems to be saying, to his listeners, that the kingdom of heaven is like a weed.  Something not so good.  Or maybe he telling them that it is not the weed itself but the seed that is like the kingdom of heaven?   The kingdom of heaven is meant to grow like that tiny weed-seed grows — fast and large.  The seed is the beginning of what can be. Possibility! The kingdom of heaven begins tiny in us.  And as we grow our little seed of faith grows too.  

Think about this!  Jesus is teaching the people, who followed him around, that the seed — the possibility of faith —  is present in Jesus the story teller.  And as people listen the seed can grow within them.  And faith becomes alive in one person at a time.  

Faith becomes more and more evident as people listen to the seed of life itself.  That is the way the kingdom of heaven begins among the people of God.  

Through all the little seeds, planted in each individual by God's Spirit, God's Kingdom grows into a wide universe of believers.  A universe filled with Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Indians, Sikhs, and all the other groups that strive to live in faith to the Great Creator God. 

Just one persons opinion! 

What do you think?