Mustard Seed

The mustard seed is a weed. As a seed it is small and overlooked. Yet when it grows, it becomes huge and aggressive -"Once sown it is scarcely possible to get the place free of it"-Pliny the Elder. Farmers therefore hate it because it sucks up all the nutrients in the soil from their other crops. There is a comparison between the mustard seed to the Kingdom of God. Like the mustard seed, the KOG may be unwanted because it sucks up our attention from all else. Like the seed, it starts small, but grows into an intrusive, consuming aspect of peoples lives.