Mark 4:26-29 NLT

Jesus also said, 

"The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground.

Night and day, while he's asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.

The earth produces the crops on its own. 

First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of wheat are formed, and finally the grain ripens. 

And as soon as the grain is ready, the farmer comes and harvests it with a sickle, for the harvest time has come."

Mark 4:26-29 NLT

What are we supposed to pay attention to here?

What would Jesus have wanted those hearing him to "get" from this story?

What does he want us to get, or invite us into?

Perhaps it's in a world where we want certainty, to know how everything works, where logic and reason is valued above intuition or values or emotions, where mystery is not something to accept or sit with, Jesus offers us some mystery...the Kingdom grows how it grows, a bit mysteriously, a bit underground, yes the farmer has a part to play, but other things are also at work, deeper things...

(& no matter what, we know that Jesus is for us, the Kingdom is for us, for our shalom, our flourishing, because, we are Beloved)

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