Growing from Seeds- Two Parables

Growing from Seeds is based on Mark 4: 26-34

So, what’s God’s Nation like? Someone scatters some seeds in a window box. Day and night, that seed sprouts and grows; you don’t need to know how it works. Does it all by itself: the stalk, the leaves, the flowers, the little green tomatoes appearing, then growing and ripening. And as soon as they’re red and ripe, that’s when they get picked, because that’s the harvest time.

And again, what’s God’s Nation like? What kind of metaphor could we use to describe it? It’s like a little acorn someone plants in the ground, an acorn small enough for a squirrel to carry. But when that acorn’s planted, it grows to become a huge oak tree, with birds nesting in it and animals sheltering in its shade.

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