Then Jesus Told Another Story
Matthew 13:33 Then Jesus told them another story: “God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough rise.”
If you’re someone who’s struggling to make the spiritual dimension, the faith dimension that we all want, to become more relevant, more up front in your life … then let me tell you, you are so … not alone.
Reconciling that faith dimension, that Jesus dimension if you will, with day-to-day life ain’t easy in this fast-moving, ultra-hi-tech world in which we live.
Yesterday we saw Jesus making the point that even the smallest mustard-seed-sized bit of faith on our part will be honoured by God as He grows it (and remember, only God can give the growth) into a mighty mustard tree; into the dominant reality, the reign of God’s kingdom in our lives. What a promise!
But hang on, there’s more, because …Then Jesus told them another story:
Matthew 13:33 “God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough rise.”
Now, I remember as a young child my mother baking bread for Easter and Christmas. And I was always amazed when she’d mixed up the dough in a bowl and set it to one side with a tea towel over it how, in an hour or so, that small ball of dough had risen right to the top of the bowl. Mind blowing. And that’s exactly the picture that Jesus is painting here.
When we allow, by the smallest seed of faith, the smallest bit of yeast, the reign of God into our heart … He’ll do something that will completely blow our minds. He’ll raise us up, He’ll shape us and grow us in the most miraculous of ways to become all that He created us to be.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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