It can’t grow if it isn’t planted (Growing seed/Mustard Seed Mark 4:30-34, Matthew 13:31-32)

It can’t grow if it isn’t planted (Growing seed/Mustard Seed Mark 4:30-34, Matthew 13:31-32)
When springtime in West Virginia hits almost every store you walk into has a display like the one in the picture attached to this blog. Springtime is time to start your garden and time to get seeds in the ground so you can have a bountiful harvest of your favorite farm fresh fruits and vegetables. I have a way of telling which seeds grow best that is full proof, I have found over my lifetime that the seeds that grow best are the ones that are planted. The ones that stay in the package and are never planted in the soil have a one hundred percent failure rate but the ones that are sown in the ground always have the best success rate. As Jesus speaks of the mustard seed in His parable and how something so small can become something great, we must remember that if the seed is not sown it will never multiply and grow. God’s Kingdom is the same as a pouch of seeds on the shelf at your local hardware store, unless someone takes the time to sow or share it with others than there is zero likely hood of it expanding into what it could be. Jesus has provided us with the highest quality seed imaginable, but someone must be willing to plant it in the lives of those around them.
To end the book of Matthew, the writer leaves us with the last words that Jesus would say face to face with His followers before He acceded to Heaven. Matthew 28:18-20 says, 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (NIV) He commanded his church to not set on the seed of the gospel until he returned but instead to plant it all over the world so that His Kingdom could grow, and disciples would be made. For the Kingdom of God to grow from a small, tiny seed to great tree that houses many then we must be willing to do our part and make sure that we are faithfully sharing the seed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with everyone we encounter. A seed that remains unplanted is useless and unprofitable and the Gospel message that is never shared can not impact the world as it is supposed to.