While He Sleeps: Mark 4:26-29

"This is what the kingdom of God is like," Jesus said, and the farmers leaned in.

"A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how."

Picture it: the farmer tosses seed into turned earth, then goes home. He eats dinner. He sleeps. He wakes and works at other tasks. Days pass. Weeks. And beneath the soil, invisible to human eyes, something miraculous unfolds.

The seed cracks. A pale root threads downward. A green shoot pushes up, breaking through the crust of earth into sunlight. The farmer did not make it happen. He could not make it happen. He provided the seed, the soil, the water—but the life? The growth? That mystery belonged to God alone.