This Sunday, we will continue the sermon series on the Parables of Jesus. This week’s parable is a two-fer: the parable of the mustard seed, and the parable of the yeast.
Parable of the mustard seed
31 He told another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in his field. 32 It’s the smallest of all seeds. But when it’s grown, it’s the largest of all vegetable plants. It becomes a tree so that the birds in the sky come and nest in its branches.”
Parable of the yeast
33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in a bushel of wheat flour until the yeast had worked its way through all the dough.”
When I hear or read these parables, I often have to first set aside my absolute disdain for mustard. But often when I don’t set aside my disdain for the yellow condiment, my disdain may reveal more about what Jesus is trying to get across. In simple terms, keeping my disdain for mustard reminds me that the kin-dom of heaven is not what I, Jay Deskins, want.
I then have to set aside my love of bread. I loooooooave (see what I did there) bread. I loathe to see loaves wasted (okay, enough). Because then I begin to miss the (all) purpose of what Jesus is saying (okay, I said enough). I see nothing wrong with hiding that yeast in the flour, I see no wrong in sourdough starter; I want leavened bread, and I want it a lot. So come on in and drop that yeast off, you don’t have to hide it! In simple terms, keeping my love of bread reminds me that the kin-dom of heaven is not what I, Jay Deskins, want.
So I wonder, help me out in the comments, what do you hear when you take in these parables? What do you feel? What comes to mind?
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