“Yeast” by Melanie Rigney (@melanierigney)
This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:32-33)
Blessed are those who fear the Lord. (Psalm 128:1a)
“To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened." (Luke 13:20-21)
Piety
Jesus, mix me where You will to bring souls to the Kingdom.
Study
Yeast. It’s a single-celled fungus. Alone, it doesn’t do much, good or bad. But we wouldn’t have wine or beer without it. When it comes to bread, yeast serves as a leaven, making the difference between flatbreads and light, airy loaves. We don’t need yeast the way we do oxygen or water, but it sure makes life richer and fuller.
In the same way, God doesn’t need us to do His thing. He touches hearts and souls and works miracles in the lives of others all the time without our little bit of help. And indeed, when our lives are a mess, we ourselves may not feel able to embrace God fully, and when our lives are tooling along just fine, we may not see a need for Him. And millions of people believe they get through earthly life just fine without Him.
But when we allow even a bit of Him into our lives, they become immeasurably richer and fuller. And when we allow even a bit of ourselves to be used to evangelize to others, the result can be something greater than we could ever accomplish on our own. We can be His yeast.
Yeast. Maybe there’s a reason the word yes can be found within it.
Action
There’s nothing wrong with flatbread, but there is definitely something missing when we accept a flat spiritual life. Look for a way today to be leaven… or to be leavened.
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