Parable of the sower

Parable of the sower In the parable of the sower, it was said that only the fourth amount of seed yielded fruit (Mt 13: 8). In the second parable – of anyone among wheat – it is said that the enemy sowed even the fourth amount of the seed and tried to poison the fourth amount (Mt 13:25). If things are like this, the damage is to bother. The work of spreading the kingdom of God is meaningless, thought not only the apostles but also others who listened to Jesus on the shore by the sea (Mt 13: 1-2). Jesus saw it and wanted to give them the courage that he was never interested in a lot, a great mass. He is more concerned with inner conviction. The kingdom of God that is in us. He cares about our personal perfection. He cares about each one of us … So he told them two more short parables, pointing out that God’s work would grow, even if the whole world conspired against him.

God is not bound by human peace (cf. Isa. 55: 9); He does not need a ceremonial laying of the foundation stone, a great beginning, etc. God’s works usually begin in secret and silence. And the disproportion between the beginning and the result is manifested above all by God’s power. The first is about the mustard seed “which man took and sowed in his role” (Mt 13:31). The mustard grain “is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows up, it is larger than the other herbs and is a tree, so that the birds of the heaven are flying and nesting on its branches” (Mt 13: 32). In the second, and also very short parable, he compares the kingdom of heaven to “a leaven, which a woman takes and mixes in three degrees of flour until everything flourishes” (Mt 13: 33).

These short parables tell the world that God uses little things to shame and instruct those who have made and deride from Christ’s teaching. Yet this doctrine, so tiny as it is, continues to tear the way forward “all over the world as a testimony to all nations” (Mt 24,14). At first, it is tiny, as small as a mustard seed. Finally, all the herbs grew, became a tree on which the branches of heaven breathed and made nests. The spread of the Kingdom of God compared Jesus to the leaven, which the woman put into three measures of flour. Kvass set in motion its immense and inner strength and poured new life into the dead mass of flour. Thus the Word of God came alive in the hearts of Jews and Gentiles by the Holy Spirit, turning them into keen Christians. Its activities were not limited to people living in the Palestine region, but to all people “all the way to the country” (Acts 1: 8). He still works, works today, and will work and bear abundant fruit “all the day until the end of the world” (Mt 28:20).

One example is the half-hour manifestation of the faithful of March 25, 1988 in Bratislava. The participants stood peacefully with candles in Hviezdoslav Square, praying and singing. Nobody tore up the tiles, smashed windows, overturned cars, built barricades, threw stones into members of the armed forces, and did not impose physical resistance on them when they suppressed the silent but determined attitude of the demonstrators. Here the faithful manifested greatly the power of the work of the Holy Spirit, which prevailed over the passions. As the leaven penetrates all the way, so the teachings of Christ are to penetrate all areas of our lives. A Christian must not retreat into the shell of his privacy and say, “Do what you want, but without me!” His task is to baptize all human being, thought and action, and to carry the mind of Christ into all areas of daily life. By the action of the Holy Spirit, he is to become as a mighty tree, in the branches of which many would find their rest. To penetrate the world like leaven on the road to ferment the entire earth’s surface. Thus strengthened and penetrated by God’s teaching to become a true blessing of the earth.