…"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree"… (Matt . 13:31-32)

The principles to the kingdom of GOD is much different than anything we, as humans, normally understand. The simple fact that something so small can be so large. How it seems that if you want to be at one extreme you have to be at the other end. If you want to be above, you got to be below. This type of thinking isn’t popular among most people. In worldly reality, why, if you wanted to be a leader, work so hard to serve? It doesn’t make sense.

There is another type of thinking and mindset. This is that of the kingdom of GOD. Where, dying is living. Where forgetting yourself for the sake of helping others, keeps you taken care of. Even losing is gaining. Where does this come from? What kind of mindset is this?

This kind of thinking comes from the spiritual realm. It comes from GOD. If you die to your fleshly nature, you will be living from your spirit. When you no longer feed (keep alive) the part of you that wants to do wrong, you will live through the spirit, and pursue God, and His desires. If you lay aside the things that keep you on top and supported, and serve others, and support them; you will be protected and supported by GOD. He will provide you with everything you need, and even bless you. Again, it’s not about all the ways that make sense in our human mind. With us, it’s easy to focus on the blessing, and work hard for that. However, in the kingdom, it’s about love. Not loving to receive love, or to get some type of award or blessing, just to love. To love as Christ loves. He gave everything just so we can be with HIM; because HE loves us. CHRIST came as an example of how we should live. Many times we don’t understand that CHRIST was human too. HE just lived through the spirit, and not through fleshly nature like we all do from time to time. If we live as we have been shown, we would live out of love. We would help people to help them, not to get anything in return. We would clothe the naked so they would have clothes, not so we can add that to the list of things we do, or get a better title, or be looked highly upon. Just to love, we would feed the hungry, so they can be filled and have a good meal in their bellies; so they could be looked after and be taken care of with no worries.

Do we really love GOD as we say we do? JESUS even said that to do this to even the least of these, is to do if for HIM. Why? Just to make HIM happy? To do something HE couldn’t do? No. JESUS can do anything. HE loves us unconditionally, and to show any love to HIM makes HIM happy. So why then? So that we could learn to love, and to truly love. Love as CHRIST loves; selfless love. And through this selfless love, that will grow. Even as the mustard seed seems so small, like our actions that seem to go unnoticed, will grow into a huge tree. The rest of the verse from up top says "…so that the birds of the air come and rest in it’s branches." The very actions that you do, even those that go unnoticed, will grow into something that will bless others, far after the initial action.

Go in grace; love.
Love as CHRIST loves. :D