I (Aimee) made myself some tea, and I had a thought as I watched the water change ...
It made me think of yeast. Something the Bible talks about a few times. Check it out ...
In
Matthew 13:33, it says:
“He
[Jesus] told them still another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a
woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the
dough.’”
But in Matthew 16:6, it says:
“‘Be
careful,’ Jesus said to them. ‘Be on your guard against the yeast of the
Pharisees and Sadducees.’”
In 1 Corinthians 5:6, Paul says:
“Your boasting is not good. Don’t you
know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?”
And in Galatians 5:9, Paul says:
“A little yeast works through the whole
batch of dough.”
Yeast, however, and it's affects on dough is not nearly as visible a change as that of a tea bag in water (which obviously made for a more dramatic visual effect). See, yeast changes the end result, even though it may not be easy to spot during the process. But, when all is said and done, there's no question of whether it's there or not. And, as it says in Galatians, yeast penetrates the whole batch, until everything is affected by it. And, as you can see from the different Bible passages, that can be for good or for evil.
So I have two questions for you to consider:
Are you allowing yourself to be transformed by the "yeast" of this world?
Or are you the allowing yourself to be transformed and are you the one doing the transforming of others for good?
