Friday, June 14th | Mark 4:26-31

Passage:
26 “The kingdom of God is like this,” he said.“A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day; the seed sprouts and grows, although he doesn’t know how. 28 The soil produces a crop by itself ​— ​first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head. 29 As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

30 And he said,“With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it? 31 It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown upon the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on the ground. 32 And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the garden plants, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”

33 He was speaking the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand. 34 He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, he explained everything to his own disciples.
-- Mark 4:26-34 (CSB)

Song:
Mustard Seed by Ellie Holcomb

Lyrics:
If you held a mustard seed in your hand
You’d see that it was tiny, like a grain of sand
But Jesus says that even when our faith is small
Nothing is impossible for Him at all
Nothing is impossible for Him at all

‘Cause our God is faithful
He can move mountains
And He asks us to believe
Our God is faithful
He can move mountains
Even when our faith is like a mustard seed
Even when our faith is like a mustard seed

Oh oh oh , oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Prayer:
O Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, look on us and have mercy on us; you who are yourself both victim and priest, yourself both reward and redeemer, keep safe from evil all those whom you have redeemed, O Savior of the world.
-Irenaeus