Mk 4:26-34
26[Jesus] said, “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land 27and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
30He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? 31It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. 32But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.” 33With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. 34Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.
He knows not how: We may be the master of the universe or the center of the earth. That just proves we are not alone in this world. There are other participants involved: nature to be considered, animals to be protected, and other people with us in this wide world. And most of all, there is God who directs everything.
All will pass and happen, after we have done all our part, after nature has run its course, after the other animals have guarded their territories. All will pass in God’s time and in God’s mercy. All our plans will come to pass, all our wishes will come true, all our hopes will come to reality “kung may awa ang Dios” (by God’s grace and mercy), as we Filipinos say. In God’s mercy, in God’s time, and in God’s way!
We do not simply sit quietly and passively, but we set ourselves aside and allow ourselves to be awed as God does his thing.