Mustard Seed

Mustard seed

Luke 13:18-19

Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.”

1. Take hold of what you have. Don’t despise the smallness. Don’t neglect it nor be embarrassed by its size. When you take hold of it then you assume ownership, commitment and authority of it. Don’t give it to anyone else. You are responsible.
2. Plant it. This is not burying it though the action looks the same. Both planting and burying are hiding the potential. The difference is that the planting is hiding for a season. Planting involves intent of growth. However initially there is nothing to show for your investment. Patience is plantings friend.
3. Watch it daily. Build expectation. In your own garden you can see the plant grow. What good would it be to plant in someone else’s garden or plant where you will never go each day. Every day the man would wake up and look out at where he had planted. He expected growth.
4. Let it become something it had been created to become. In your hand it didn’t look like a tree. You never become what you already are. You are meant to change.
5. You will attract into your garden what was previously not there. You planted a seed, it became a tree, you got the birds as a bonus. The power of attraction happens because you kept to the law of sowing.

This is what the kingdom of God is like