The Smallest Seed of All
In 12 step programs the parable of the mustard seed is used a lot. In the setting of a recovery meeting Jesus Christ’ name is not evoked but this parable is well known and is the foundation of helping a great many people back from the brink. If one can muster enough faith no larger than that of a mustard seed, that faith, planted in good soil, will grow, will flourish and will produce fruit, 30 fold, 60 and even 100 times greater.
30 Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?
31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;
32 but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.”
