Sunflower Faith

Matthew 13:31-32 (New International Version)

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
31He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 32Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”

What a reminder of Spring.

The promise of new life and not far from now, we will be reminded of our Heavenly Father’s Son’s Ressurrection.

I did a little look into the signficance of why a mustard seed? After all…it is beautiful, it captures the heart, but it’s not roses.

I mean, when we are brought flowers from our loved one, it’s usually roses or something more ornate, but the mustard seed? When it blossoms…it is everywhere, it’s so ordinary and sometimes easy to miss, but for the birds, it is attractive and gives them a place to rest and it stands out from everything else.

Why?

From,”Parables of Jesus”, the writer shared,” …the message in the parable was hidden to many. Human nature looks for great things. It looks for self-importance, esteem of fellow men, pride and grandeur. Not so the kingdom of heaven. Even the disciples were not entirely free of this human trait, as they debated among themselves who should be the greatest. Jesus reproved them and made clear that the greatest were those who served. [Luke 9.46-48]

Our Father does not say, build me a tower and I will love you. Our Father does not say, if you’re not missing any teeth, I will love you. Our Father does not care what degree we do or do not have, or how well, or not so well we can speak.

Our Father loves us for us. All of us. Our imperfections. Our gifts (and we all have gifts, we just have to see them from His eyes and not from side to side eyes).He just loves us.

Just like we just love our kids for who they are, but His love, really. His love is just bigger, grander but simple.

What is humbling about what our Father’ Son did for us is as the writer shares,”Jesus, without whom the kingdom of God could never be established, was despised and rejected and finally crucified by his generation. They looked for glorious things and he offered them a mustard seed!”

It’s kinda like, waiting for a celebrity to pull up in a stretch limosiune, but instead He shows up in a beat up truck and saying, “Here I am”.

Wouldn’t you get that all too human,”Oh, not really what I expected”.

Yet…this is what He shares with us how simple and yet grand His kingdom would be. I was humble by a conversation I was privy to. Everyone was talking about the mansion they were getting when they got to Heaven and what type of crown they might get and one person said,”I’m just happy if I go to Heaven and clean the toilet. It doesn’t matter what I get because at least I’m going to be in Heaven”.

Oooo.

Talk about missing the point.

What if we go to Heaven and the mansion we have there, doesn’t match up to what we thought either.  What if we don’t even get a mansion, but maybe just a humble home. Are we going to go. “Oh”.

Or are we going to just be thankful to just be in Heaven, with Him, our Father.

Have faith like a mustard seed and see what blossoms.

It’s not roses but that’s okay.

The thing is…it’s not about what we are going to get or have that is the whole point. It’s about Him. Our Father.

When you think about it…a mustard seed. When it grows….it’s a wildflower. A humble, lost among many simple wildflower, but to the bird…it’s everything.

So should be our Father’s kingdom, so should, just be our journey and passion to with Him.

It’s not about what are going to gain in the long run, but, really just about being there with Him. That should be enough.

Nothing can really compare to the glory and joy of our Heavenly Father.

‘To see a world in a grain of sand
                  And a heaven in a wild flower;
                  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
                  And eternity in an hour.’-William Blake

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