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.’
We cannot force God and the things of God.
There’s nothing we can do to make, manufacture, or manipulate the kingdom. For we plant and we water; but “God causes the growth.”
This is meant to free us from the illusion of control. It also frees us to trust the earth, its goodness, and its own timing. For the soil of the earth waits again with pursed lips for the next breath of God. God breathes again and suddenly everything changes.
What does this say to me? Keep walking. Keep scattering. Keep your hand on the plow. Keep praying.
Stop fretting. Stop striving. Stop staying up all night with anxiety and worry.
Trust.
For the seed is good. The earth is good. God is good. And beneath the surface of all that can be seen, somewhere hidden in the depths and mystery of life, it is all very, very good.
“And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.”
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