Seed Growing Secretly

Sower & the Seeds

In Mark 4:27 Jesus continued his riddle about a man scattering seed. Having cast it, the man goes about his daily routine, dissociating himself from the seed, but it grows. Bad teachings in the church often have one thing in common. They focus on human effort and human theories. This parable shows that the real agent of kingdom growth is elsewhere. Yet, we all try to do God's job for him. Our job is to be scatterers of seed. The growth is God's job.

This has been called appropriately the Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly. We do not know how the seed of the kingdom brings forth results. There is power in a seed. When seeds grow, it is a miracle. So is the rule of God in peoples' lives. Like the man we do not know how it works, but it does, night and day. That's what Jesus said.