Mustard Seed

“The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches” – Mathew 13: 31, 32.

This is a parable which Christ told when talking about the Kingdom. The scope of this parable is to show, that the beginnings of the gospel would be small, but that its latter end would greatly increase. Most of the time, the growth of gospel will be very weak and small at first, like a grain of mustard seed, which is one of the least of all seeds. The Kingdom of the Messiah, started with Christ and the apostles, compared with the grandees of the world, appeared like a grain of mustard seed, the weak things of the world.

There are places where the gospel were preached by uneducated, unhealthy or untalented people and shook that place. Even though if a person is uneducated or good for nothing, when accepts Christ as his personal saviour and repent his sins, the faith will start growing and his character and personality will be moulded for a greater work. A grain of mustard seed is small, but however it is seed, and has in it a disposition to grow. Grace will be getting ground, shining more and more. Gracious habits as the fruits of Holy Spirit will grow and faith become more confirmed. “The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day” – Proverbs 4:18.

When it is grown to some maturity, it becomes a tree, larger. With a simple faith when a man of God starts preaching the gospel, it will start growing and enlarge into other parts, which is like a tree. Grown Christians must covet to be useful to others, as the mustard seed when grown is to the birds; that those who dwell near or under their shadow may be the better for them.

“People will dwell again in his shade; they will flourish like the grain, they will blossom like the vine – Israel’s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon” – Hosea 14: 7.

The question asked is who is going to be like the mustard seed? God wants anyone who is having a simple faith in Jesus Christ, to be the mustard seed. That’s why most places the uneducated, or people who are useless, take up the faith and are growing like a tree for Jesus Christ. God wants a humble disciple, not a proud one. Are you humble or proud?

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him” – 1 Corinthians 1:27-29.