“HE TOLD them another parable. ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.’” [Mt 13:33]
WHEN A woman made bread, she set aside a small portion of the risen dough, carefully preserving it as a leaven. When the time came to bake more bread, she used the reserved leaven to make the new batch of dough rise. Thus for a family, the bread for today made possible the bread for tomorrow. Like leaven for the dough, our Lord Jesus Christ is the hope of God’s Kingdom.
THROUGH, WITH and in Christ our family of faith is magnified and our thoughts rise to God. Keeping this in mind, we should be conscious always of the maternal aspect of our spiritual lives—not exhausting ourselves in the things of the moment, but rather setting aside time each day to pray, allowing the Word of God to grow in our lives, and reserving the Lord’s Day for worship and rest.
EACH OF us has a spiritual kitchen. We need to be found there, doing the work of the day, preparing good things for others and keeping the door unlocked—so that all may enter to know and to share the love of Christ. Take a lesson from making bread: What you store up today in the name of Christ makes possible the bounty of your tomorrow.
