{"id":5470,"date":"2019-05-01T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyonleadership.brentwoodbaptistonline.com\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2019-05-01T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:33:19","slug":"mustard-seeds-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/adult-discipleship\/mustard-seeds-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustard Seeds in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>LIFE Group leader Julie Gilbreath shares a reflection from her trip to Israel to encourage and challenge us during this series, &#8220;Gospel Conversations: You will Be My Witnesses.&#8221;<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_5474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5474\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/gilbreath-mustard-seed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5474 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/leadership.brentwoodbaptist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/gilbreath-mustard-seed-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Gilbreath with Mustard Plant, Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDuring a lesson in Israel, our leader was talking about how the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed (Matt. 13:31-32). Then he pointed out that I was sitting right next to a mustard plant! I had no idea, but as soon as I was told (and after multiple selfies) I began to see it everywhere. In the South, we have kudzu. In Israel, they have mustard plants.<br \/>\nWhen Jesus said that the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, he wasn\u2019t just referring to its size. Once a seed hits the ground, it\u2019s unstoppable. It\u2019s invasive and unwelcome, and it outgrows everything around it. One seed can overrun a garden, then a yard, then a neighborhood, then a country.<br \/>\nGod works in unexpected ways. A baby born in a stable. A carpenter. An itinerant rabbi and prophet. Crawling out of a tomb after being executed. It all sounds crazy. But God is mysterious and supernatural. His kingdom is sneaky and subversive. Inverted. The opposite of what we\u2019re looking for. It\u2019s near us, among us, but until someone points it out and tells us what it is, we never see it even though we\u2019re sitting right beside it.<br \/>\nShortly after his resurrection, Jesus talked with two disciples on the road to Emmaus but they didn\u2019t recognize him. Mary thought he was the gardener until he said her name. Thomas needed proof. We\u2019re all the same, and that\u2019s why God came down. It was Jacob\u2019s dream come to life \u2014 \u201cSurely the LORD was in this place and I was not aware of it.\u201d (Gen. 28:16)<br \/>\nThis is the good news of gospel: the king came to us \u2014 a heavenly kingdom within reach. And now it\u2019s everywhere. Relentless and unstoppable. But we didn\u2019t recognize it until someone told us it was there all along. So go and share the good news, friends. 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