Sometimes I think we think that the Kingdom of God is someone else's job.
I don't know, maybe we think it's purely God's job.
Or the Church's job.
The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how."
We are the "someone" who scatters the seed. We do this by living the Way Jesus shows us to live. The way of fellowship, breaking the bread, continuing in the study of the apostles, serving others, healing others, including others, forgiving others, taking time apart to pray, walking with others, loving others, worshipping God.
We are agents of God. We are the living members of Christ called to fulfill God's mission: "to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ." (Book of Common Prayer, 855). We scatter the seeds when we are faithful to our baptismal promises. We don't always have to know how our actions directly lead to God's Kingdom being known and grown, but we do have to trust---to have faith--that if we are living the Way, then the seed will grow.
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