Unfortunately, we've been watering it and nurturing it - whether by our ignorance of the disease, or our failed leadership, or our inability to do better once we knew better and distance ourselves from one another or do something as simple as wear a mask. Something so small you can’t see it with the naked eye, and yet it blossomed into a global pandemic that has killed millions, and affected millions more. It's a cautionary tale for us to be careful about what we plant, water and give room to grow - no matter how small - because we might be giving life to weeds that suck up all the oxygen in the soil.Ĭovid-19 is one of those tiny bad seeds that fell on good soil and grew like a weed sucking the air out of our lungs. The truth is, bad things are just as likely to be nurtured and grow, the same as good things. Instead, God gives us something much more valuable – truth. In scripture, God doesn’t do us the favor of equating growth with good, as we often do. Then, in the parable of the growing seed, Jesus poses the scenario where a good seed of wheat is corrupted by weeds planted by the enemy to overtake all that is good. The parable of the sower, for example, focused on the yield produced by the seed that fell on good soil. Some of my favorite parables throughout the gospels are the ones where Jesus is speaking to us about growth specifically, the idea that something big can emerge from something small. 31 He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field 32 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
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