SCRIPTURE: Mark (NIV) 4:30 Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade.”
OBSERVATION: Jesus here uses the tiny mustard seed to teach truth about the kingdom of God. It is such a tiny seed yet grows into such a large plant that the birds can find a place of shade. Though the seed is tiny, only 1-2 mm in size it can grow to a plant 6-20 feet tall! Obviously, it is not the size of the seed, but the “size” of the life within the seed.
APPLICATION: And so it is with the kingdom of God. Our place in God’s kingdom does not depend on the level of education, or the strength within the body, or the beauty of one’s voice, or the riches they may possess. It depends on the life of God within! …and more than that, it depends on the life of God that we allow to break through the hard shell of the seed.
We have spent years training our mind to think and our body to respond. We have been so programed to live within the limitations of our physical bodies and the limits of our own knowledge, that we forget that the Spirit of Almighty God dwells within us!
PRAYER: Holy Spirit, as the seed must be broken to allow the life within to grow into its designed destiny, so cause my flesh to break and allow the life within me to grow and develop into what you are working in me. Amen.
Pastor Leon
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