There is something almost laughable about a mustard seed. Hold one in the palm of your hand, and you’ll barely feel it. It looks like a speck of reddish-brown dust. It is, botanically speaking, a overachiever with an inferiority complex.

But here's the thing: God delights in using small, ordinary things to accomplish extraordinary things. The mustard seed may be tiny, but it has within it the potential to grow into something massive.

In Matthew 13:31-32, Jesus says, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows it is one of the largest garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches."