I planted some romaine lettuce earlier this spring. It grew well and I harvested most of it. But I left 5 or 6 plants to grow to maturity and produce seeds. I’ve never done this with lettuce before, so I was pleased when the little yellow flowers started to dry out leaving a small cluster of seeds at the top. I spent a few minutes the other day pulling just a small fraction of the tiny clusters, I had hundreds of little seeds in my collection bowl. Earlier in the spring I planted just a few small seeds; small enough to fit under my fingernail. And from each of those tiny seeds came a plant over 4 feet tall bearing hundreds more seeds to be spread.
And I can’t help but be reminded of Mark 4:20 – “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
The things we do and say may seem small. But God can turn them into a harvest if we will simply sow them.
Today, show the love of Christ to someone through your words and actions. It may be a small thing now, but you never know what it might grow into and produce.