Years ago when our boys were young my wife made homemade bread.
She used to make four loaves a week.
I loved it.
I loved the taste of it... and I loved observing the process of it being made.
My wife would roll dough into four small tubes, lay the tubes in clay bread pans, and then in a couple hours the tubes would grow into big heaps in their pans...
Then after another 30 minutes in the oven, the bread was done.
The growth of those dough tubes from the leaven -- or yeast -- in these loaves especially amazed me.
The expansion was like magic!
I've been thinking of this lately because it's such a good illustration of how God works through His people to build His kingdom.
Like leaven, our influence is often subtle, and takes time...
Yet the impact of our efforts can completely transform situations and people for good... if we're patient.
Keep that in mind as you fulfill what God has called you to do today.
Our secular world needs the leaven of godly influence.
And though your faithfulness may not seem to accomplish much in the short run, over time you'd be amazed by the impact it has.
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened" (Mt.13:33).