A tiny mustard seed makes a tree big enough in which birds can safely nest. That is the Kingdom of Heaven. That is what we are to be in this world. Lord, grant that we might be a safe place to raise our young, a place of refuge for the refugee, a place of feeding for the hungry, a place of healing for the hurting, a place of renewal for the weary, a place of acceptance for the rejected, and a place of revival for the fainting. Lord, we want to be the mustard tree that You have envisioned for the world.
“He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” Matthew 13:31-32 (NRSV)
