“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in a field”

“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour”

As I survey the Gospels it becomes increasingly clear that what is whispered through parables will one day be shouted from the hills of victory. The kingdom of heaven is whispered by Jesus. It is introduced so softly that the world in general will completely miss it. Twelve disciples will see it, believe it, doubt it, and then believe it again. Jesus Himself will be silenced, but only temporarily, by the grave. When all hope is lost the resurrection breaks in with the proof that the Kingdom is not only alive and well but much larger and powerful than mankind ever thought possible.

Even today, the Kingdom with such a great cloud of witnesses, is missed by most. It is the mustard seed that science dismisses away for the sake of more reasonable data. It is the leaven that kings and presidents view only as a group of constituents rather than the order by which they themselves are appointed. The kingdom is small, even still, to the world in which it is crashing into. It is the talk of fictional spiritualists that believe the fables that have been passed down to them. And yet, this Kingdom will one day be seen by all not as a fictional tale but as the true reality by which the perception of our current reality played but only a parody.

The Kingdom of God is a mustard seed, after which it has become full grown all the birds of the air will nest its branches. To understand that it is God who holds the world and not the world who holds God is to begin to understand just how big this Kingdom really is.