Be Still And Know

READ: Mark 4:26,27 NLT Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.” We have the privilege of being foster parents and my day often begins by having breakfast with our foster daughter. She is ten years old and has a sharp and enquiring mind. Very often she will come up with a question like “Why don’t birds fly into one another?” or “How do bees smell?” I rarely have any idea of the answer and particularly at that time in the morning! Our foster daughter will then normally say, “Well google it then!” Googling is great and gives us speedy access to libraries of knowledge. But even so the world is still full of mysteries. In these verses Jesus speaks of the mystery of the Kingdom of God. Day and night, rain and shine, the kingdom of God grows. Just as a farmer has no understanding of how growth happens, so we too cannot fathom how God works. It is simply an ama