growing.....

"Yet it is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on the earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in the shade.."  (Mark 4:31-32)

When we think of seeds and growing we think of plants - right?  When we think of "growing" we think of how fast our kids, and grandchildren, grow.  The only thing that seems to grow faster is the weeds in the garden we just planted.  I remember, from years ago, a song about "Turn Around" starting out with a small child then "turn around and they are a young person going out of the door."  I also remember planting the seeds, for a friends vegetable garden, in the greenhouse and then in the garden so we could enjoy the fresh veggies.

Seeds are what is being talked about in the Scripture today.  Samuel is anointing David - the smallest, youngest of Jesse's sons.  (1 Samuel 16:13).  Then "the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David." (v. 13)  Paul is reminding us we are new in Christ - "the old has gone, the new is here."  (2 Corinthians 5:17)  And Jesus is pointing out how small the mustard seed is but how big the plant grows. (4:31-32)

Something to think about.....  What if the seed is the "seed of an idea"?  What if what God has been laying on our hearts to try is growing?  What if it can grow even more?  Earlier in the readings about Samuel anointing David we are reminded God see things differently "The Lord doesn't see things the way you see them." (1 Samuel 16:7 NLT)  Definitely something to think about.....