The Right Path

In spiritual traditions there is a Right Path.  In Christianity it is called The “Kingdom of God” or the “Kingdom.”  Jesus gives some ideas about what this is and how to respond.  In one example he uses the mustard seed, a tiny seed planted in a field of food crop.  The framer did not plant it.  It is a weed, a nuisance to the farmer’s plan for a pristine crop.  So in this case, God’s plans don’t mesh with our plans.  This is the cross for believers in these scriptures.  God initiates and believers accept and work with it.  It is the path that is given us.  The right path is given.  We stumble upon it while planning something else.  The second example is the woman who mixes flour and leaven together so that the dough will rise to make bread.  In this example we participate in the kingdom.  We cooperate with God’s plans.  Our will is necessary in conformity to God’s will.  God’s will may be the leaven and our’s is the flour.  Flour without leaven is not going to rise.  It is like finding the right path and actually taking it.  So there are believers who are resentful that their God does not give them what they want to fulfill their plans, and there are others who discover a way, but waver abut taking it since it seems “inconvenient” and there are others who participate, willingly doing something to mix the kingdom, the right path, into the world of wanderers.