The unstoppable power of God
In yesterday's Gospel, Jesus says: “the Kingdom of God is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour ’til it was leavened all through.” A few months ago, Dr. Jessie Rodgers, the Scripture scholar broke open this parable for us. Do you know how much 3 measures of flour is? Well, I did not. It is enough to make 52 loaves of bread! Dr. Jessie does the Parables of Jesus with children sometimes and the comment of one little girl on the 52 loaves of bread was – “ that Mammy must have had very greedy children”! What strikes you I wonder? Maybe that the good woman must have had strong arms to mix that amount of flour? What grips me is that a tiny bit of yeast could make 52 loaves of bread rise. Our young sister makes a large loaf of yeast bread and I love to see it swelling up. But what is so much more awesome is that Jesus uses that image of the tiny bit of yeast when He wants us to discover the wonder of the Kingdom of God’s lov e and goodness. Yes and He tel