In Matthew 13 we read of Jesus teaching first the multitudes then just the disciples about the kingdom of God through parables. He taught the multitudes only in parables, fulfilling the words of a Messianic psalm. We sometimes skip over the smaller parables in this chapter, but they give an amazing insight into how we should live today.
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” In a sense, the kingdom is hidden. It is a strange idea, seemingly foolishness, so foreign to natural thinking. Yet in our hearts the hope and influence and principles take hold and spread to fill our whole life.
We have been caught up in the net, given the chance to really see and hear the hope of a glorious future. It is a hidden treasure, something we must find and get and hold on to with all our might, but also one that we must share with everyone.