MARK 4.26-29
THE PARABLE OF THE GROWING SEED

Spiritual growth cannot be measured by a stopwatch. The kingdom of God may begin in a person’s life in an instant, but its growth becomes visible only with the passing of time and the practice of faithfulness. This is one aspect of the kingdom of God that Jesus describes in the parable of the growing seed, a story that is recorded only by Mark. Let’s read this passage. Mark 4.26-29.

Mark 4.26. And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
27 and goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts up and grows– how, he himself does not know.
28 “The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
29 “But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”