Heaven’s Leaven

Family gatherings, holiday time–my family depends on it. Homemade bread. What makes bread, rolls, croissants and soft pretzels so light and good? Yeast. A substance that reacts with sugar to produce a gas that lightens dough.

In Matthew 13:33, is Jesus’ shortest parable which compares the kingdom of heaven to yeast or leaven.

Heaven’s Leaven

When yeast is mixed into the dough

then left alone, a change will show

The dough will soon be twice its size,

thanks to yeast that made it rise.

“The kingdom’s like this,” Jesus said.

Like the leaven makes our bread.

Word and Spirit both alive

begin to work, deep inside

and change a life bound by sin.

Setting it free. New life in Him

and He in us–hope of glory.

Heaven’s leaven. Unseen story.