Jesus told them another story: “God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman mixes into a big bowl of flour to make bread. The yeast makes all the dough rise.”

I love to bake. I bake all kinds of goodies. One of my favorite things to bake is chocolate chip cookies. The secret to making them taste extra yummy is to triple the vanilla. Instead of one teaspoon of vanilla, add a tablespoon and you’ll be good to go. (If you don’t get anything else out of this devotion, at least you learned that!)

One thing I have never made is bread from scratch. I used to have a bread maker and I let it do all the hard work of baking bread. I had to add all of the ingredients, but I didn’t have to knead the dough. I do remember that just a little bit of yeast went a long way in making the dough rise. Forgetting to add the yeast leads to very flat and very dense bread. The yeast makes a huge difference, even if it is nearly imperceptible in the bread.

When Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like yeast in dough, He means that it started small and almost imperceptibly. Jesus and His disciples started a movement with such small beginnings and yet billions of people throughout history have claimed the name of Jesus as Savior and Lord! Think about how the Kingdom has grown over the past 2,000 years—from such a small start to a huge loaf of Kingdom bread!

Friend, you and I are a part of something so big and so vast that it is almost unbelievable what God has done. The yeast did its job and now it is up to us to do ours. Who can you tell about what Jesus has done in your life? Who can you invite to church? With whom can you share your testimony? There’s still room for more to come in. The Baker isn’t finished baking bread yet!

By Shawn Cornett, Bible League International staff, Indiana, U.S.