YOUR UNIQUE SPACE IN THE KINGDOM PART I

The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed IN HIS FIELD,

which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs

and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches. (Matt 13:31-

32, NKJV, emphasis added)

The mustard seed is a very interesting seed. It is also a very small seed. Yet in it lies the potential to provide space for the birds of the air to nest.

Now, Jesus, in illustrating one of

the operational dimensions of the kingdom likens it to a mustard seed. 

And that this particular mustard seed is such that a man sows in his field. Now note the emphasis on the

phrase in his field. 

Adejoh & Arome 

We will for the sake of driving home the salient message contained in this parable of the kingdom spend a little while in considering the import of this phrase. 

The phrase in his field suggests to us that the field is the man’s personal concern. 

It also means the little space on the vast planet that the man can call his own. 

It is the portion of land that the man is personally responsible for. 

It is not something corporate or communal. It is his

private concern. 

This is in complete harmony with the fact that though there could be billions of hectares out there, what the man can truly lay claim to is this tiny portion of land. 

It is on this same land that Jesus says the kingdom can both be planted and nurtured to fruition.

Again the fact that Jesus likens the great kingdom of heaven to a tiny; little seed brings the

following to mind:

• The kingdom cannot operate in a vacuum; it requires a proper medium to do so.

• The kingdom is organic (it is alive because a seed is simply a bundle of unexpressed potential of life).

• The great kingdom of heaven can be adapted to a tiny expression which can go on to

become a massive phenomenon.

Credit: GO INTO ALL THE WORLD BY AROME OSAYI.

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