Yeast
January 27, 2012 at 6:12 am WSC
Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.” Luke 13:20-21
When I was kid, I’d watch my mom make bread by hand. Mom would mix the Fleishmann’s ® yeast with water. That yeast didn’t look very impressive and appeared to be just cloudy water. But the yeast had a strange power built into it as it worked in the dough from the inside out. The dough would rise and we’d have bread. Every time!
Thank God that his word has a special power to permeate and get into stone cold hearts 
like yours and mine. We were not born better candidates to become Christians than anyone else. We were born with zero spiritual powers to come to Christ. It was the grace of God and the yeast of God’s word that changed us into something we were not. The yeast of God’s word doesn’t appear to be very impressive either. But there is divine power in that word to make our faith grow just as there is power in the yeast to make the bread dough rise.
Just as yeast makes bread dough rise slowly and quietly without any snap, crackle and pop, our faith also grows slowly and quietly. But like yeast permeating and then changing dough, the word changed us. Now we have new values, new goals, a new reason to live, and a living hope compared to when we were just a “lump of dough” and didn’t know Christ by faith. Spread this yeast in your community and neighborhood and watch the yeast change the people you love in the way it changed you.
Prayer: Jesus, continue to work the yeast of your word in my heart that I may grow to love and serve you more. Please also then use me to share your word with those I come in contact with, that your word may continue to spread. Amen
