by The Rev. Darrell Huddleston
1 Kngs. 3:5-12; Ps. 119:129-136; Rom. 8:26-39; Mt. 13:31-33, 44-52
In our gospel lesson, Jesus bombards us with one parable after another, all starting with the phrase, “The Kingdom of heaven is like…” …a mustard seed and yeast, a buried treasure and a pearl of great price and a fish dragnet. Two twined images and a solitary concluding one carrying the theme of hiddenness and searching. The Kingdom is hidden and is something to be discovered.
Perhaps a better phrase for ‘kingdom’ is ‘reign of God’ as the former implies that it might be a place, or only some ideal that will only be known in the future, certainly not in our sordid mess of a world. The ‘reign of God’, Jesus tells us, can be discovered in the here and now. Continue reading ‘July 24, 2011 – 6th Sunday after Pentecost’