He continued, “What’s a good image for God’s kingdom? What parable can I use to explain it? Consider a mustard seed. When scattered on the ground, it’s the smallest of all the seeds on the earth; but when it’s planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all vegetable plants. It produces such large branches that the birds in the sky are able to nest in its shade.” (Mark 4:30-32, CEB)
If you know anything about seeds you know the mustard seed is small. However, it is not the smallest seed, and while it might have been in Jesus’ time, I am not even sure that is true.
The point of the parable though is still good, and true. A very small seed becomes something massive.
And what is now a very small thing will one day engulf all of creation.
Know that while now we only get glimpses of God’s Kingdom, one day it will be every where.
Loving People. Loving God.
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