Leaven in flour

Matthew 13:33 again finds Jesus describing the Kingdom of Heaven with a parable, He says, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

The Kingdom of God described in this parable is not the outwardly established kingdom, as in the parable of Mustard Seed, instead, this is the slow, gradual change from within that the Kingdom of God works on the environment around it. Although proportionally the leaven, or yeast, that is worked into the flour is very small, it creates an all-encompassing change. The Kingdom of God is a potent agent of change that can infuse growth, life, and transformation into the context where it is placed.

Those of us who are in Christ are the means by which God has chosen to infuse bubbling, transformative, life into an otherwise passive and flat reality. We don’t replace, rewrite, or compete with the world around us, because we are something entirely different. As the leaven, or yeast, we can’t help but transform the world around us into something altogether new, better than it was before.

How has God equipped you to be a transformative element in your context today?


Matthew 13:33