Mustard

The mustard seed was proverbially the smallest seed a farmer would sow, yet it grew into a shrub large enough for birds to nest in its branches. Jesus picked it deliberately as the smallest possible starting point for the biggest possible outcome.

• “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:”

  Matthew 13:31

The kingdom of heaven, starting impossibly small and growing beyond expectation — ‘which indeed is the least of all seeds’ (Matthew 13:32).

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