Mark 4, 26-34
Sunday, 13 June 2021 (11th O T)
“The Kingdom of God is like a man who sowed seed in the ground…It is also like a mustard seed: when it is sown it is the smallest seed, but afterwards… birds can nest in it.”
For great evils, great remedies. This is something we tend to think, and sometimes it serves as an excuse for doing nothing. Faced with the great problems of our society, we believe that the little we can contribute will have no effect.
It would be good for us this Sunday to think about the parables that Jesus tells us about seeds: they have great inner strength, they grow by themselves, and even the smallest ones can grow into trees. When there is an inner strength in our activity, such as love, enthusiasm or interest, it becomes more effective. But if that force comes from God, from his Spirit, then its effectiveness is multiplied.
This is how God leads our history. We need to trust in his word and forget our protagonism. Many grains of sand can make a sand dune. Many seeds bearing fruit can make a forest. A group of rough fishermen in a remote part of the Roman Empire, following a young teacher, succeeded in changing the history of the world. The Good News of the Kingdom reached far and wide.
The growth and maturation of the group of believers over two thousand years is the work of God. The Kingdom is on the move and growing without our knowing how. We need to trust in God’s plans, even if they don’t fit in our computers…
Juan Ramón Gómez Pascual, cmf
