Don’t Minimize Your Influence.

“Another parable spake He unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Mathew 13:33

You are probably familiar with yeast, a raising agent used by bakers. That is what the Bible refers to as a leaven. It is small and inconsequential. The Living Bible version brings it home better: “He also used this example: “The Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a woman making bread. She takes a measure of flour and mixes in the yeast until it permeates every part of the dough.”

All you need in a loaf of bread is a very small quantity of yeast compared to the dough; but when you mix it into the dough, it makes it makes the entire dough rise and fill the baking pan. In fact if…