Growing Together

In these parables of Jesus, we see the church pictured as a field of individual plants and then as a single plant. It reminds us not only that we should see growth in our lives but we recognize that this maturity is on both individual and corporate levels. As people who have been given the gift of understanding, we should work hard at relying on God and being diligent in making use of those means he has set before us. Not only does God give us increase now, but he will also raise us from the dead at the resurrection at the end of time.