Seeing the future

In our connection group we talked about Jesus' series of parables in Matthew 13 and noticed how time is crucial in each one of them. Before there are various seeds, after you see which ones produce fruit. Now you see the weeds and the wheat together, later they will be separated. Now you see a small mustard seed but later you will see a huge plant. Now you see a tiny bit of yeast, later there will be a huge amount of bread. First a man had a few things of little value, and then he traded then for a treasure (or pearl) of far greater value. In each parable wisdom consists in the ability to see something and then imagine what it will some day be. God can do this as a matter of course. Whenever God looks at anything he can see its entire future. Wisdom is learning to see the world the way God sees it and one of our biggest barriers is we don't see the future value of the treasure and the way a small seed can some day be something magnificent.