Mark 4:26-29 26 He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain-- first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."
These few verses are speaking a lot to me this morning. In fact I am not quite sure where to start. Um... Well, I know that when we plant things here on Earth we have to do a lot more than just scatter seed. We prep the ground, by softening it up, then spread the seed, then water, then pull weeds out, and put up a fence around it so animals don't come in and eat the plants, keep watering, and pulling weeds, and hopefully if the weather was cooperative you may have a harvest... Jesus is pointing out a key difference between the kingdom of God and Earth. In Heaven, the land of grace (unmerited favor), we can simply by faith believe, and great things will come of it. Faith is our seed that are planted, and nothing else is required of us, and then we reap the benefits that we have not earned. Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is here and available to us. We need to plant our seeds of faith in kingdom soil, because there are things God wants us to do that we cannot work hard enough to do right. We just need to have faith in him and believe. Lord, help us to scatter seed on kingdom soil today!
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