Matthew 13:33 "He told them still another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."
As far as I know, this is the only time in Scripture that leaven is pictured in a good light. Normally is it always linked to bad or evil (Matthew 16:11, I Corinthians 5:6-7). But the point here is that a little leaven (yeast) will overtake the entire dough eventually.
God never intended for His kingdom to be hid in our hearts, homes and churches; but instead "be a city on a hill" and put the "light on a stand so everyone in the house can see." (Matthew 5: 14-15
The Western world is about the only place where we will see this divide. Does such a dichotomy exist in Africa? Saudi Arabia? India? This divide is an anomaly. If Christ is the Truth, then it penetrates everything we are and everywhere we go.
One last story. A man was converted at the age of 15. This is the time of life when young men and women are "wondering what they will be in life." He felt he wanted to serve God, but had always wanted to be a lawyer. So he went to Law school, get a law degree and joined a firm. Yet, he was unhappy and unfulfilled. He thought he might have missed God's call and that God was punishing him for not "serving Him full-time." He spoke to a pastor wondering if he should go to seminary and "become a minister."
That pastor caused him to see that he could serve God just as good where he was, if not better, because most lawyers deal with people in crisis: divorce, seeking justice, etc. So that lawyer begin to see his law practice as an extension of God's kingdom and he was greatly fulfilled.
Oh, how we need to penetrate the office complexes, industrial assembly lines and the classrooms with Truth people who don't just have "Sunday clothes" and "work clothes."
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