Mark 4:21-34
Dear RTB’ers,
A week ago I mentioned that there were only six items in Mark’s gospel that were not included in any of the other gospels. Today’s parable of the growing seed is one of those six items. This parable contains one precious sentence: He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. (v. 27) In our day scientists have discovered much about plants and their growth cycles. Still, most of us remain fairly ignorant as to what is going on inside the plant, yet we are fascinated, nonetheless. Today as we drove home from church, I saw new green rows of wheat sprouting up in a field just off the highway. That wheat had been planted last fall and had lain dormant the entire winter until just the past few days. What kind of Creator comes up with a process, a mystery like that? Our loving God has created millions and millions of those mysteries – beauty upon beauty for the human eye to see. Spring is a wonderful time to view these glorious mysteries – daffodils emerging from untouched soil; newborn foals dancing in the fields, with mares only a few feet away; pouring rain making rivers out of dry creek beds; red buds on limbs and branches, a prelude to green leaves. What a glorious Creation we have! What a wonderful Creator! We know not how!!
Blessings!
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