Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 4 verses 26 through 29:
26 He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.’
There is an old Grimm's Fairy Tale I have always loved about a little tailor going on a long, long journey. Along the way, the tailor encounters all kinds of challenges which he overcomes with things he's tucked away in little pockets his hand-sewn suit.
On one leg of the journey the tailor comes upon a giant who refuses to let the tailor pass lest the tailor can defeat him in some kind of test of strength. The tailor agrees and chooses a rock-throwing contest. Overjoyed with the chance to demonstrate the might of his muscle, the giant bends down and grabs a huge bolder, spins round like an Olympic discus thrower, and then launches the bolder as high and far into the sky as the eye can see before it finally comes crashing down in a hail of dust.
The tailor watched, nodded respectfully at the giant, and then bent down and picked up a tiny pebble. He then opened his little tailor's coat and took out a little piece of thread. He nodded again at the giant and then opened the other side of his coat from which he pulled out a small dove. The tailor then took the tiny pebble and tied it to the foot of the small dove, raised the dove as high into the hair as his tiny stature would allow him, and then released the dove into the air. It never came back.
Jesus said, "The earth produces of itself." Because its meant to grow.
And birds fly of themselves because they have wings.
But boulders are bound to fall -- no matter how high you throw them.
Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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