There is a saying that what you sow is what you reap. And seed is what you sow. If you sow an apple seed you won’t get a orange tree. But if you sow a seed as small as a mustard seed, you will in due time get a huge mustard tree with many more seeds for you to sow. Likewise, if you sow love, you receive love. So if you sow mercy you receive mercy. “What you sow is what you reap”

One day St. Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him?  Seven times?”

“No, not seven times,” answered Jesus, “but seventy times seven, because the Kingdom of heaven is like this.

Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants’ accounts. 

He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars. The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt.

The servant fell on his knees before the king. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay you everything!’
The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.

“Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he said.

His fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back!’ But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt. 

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were very upset and went to the king and told him everything.  So he called the servant in.

‘You worthless slave!’ he said. ‘I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to.  You should have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you.’

The king was very angry, and he sent the servant to jail to be punished until he should pay back the whole amount.” 

And Jesus concluded, “That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

How we cannot receive mercy unless we will give mercy.  Jesus tells us that unless we give mercy, we will not receive it. On the positive side, he says “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”

A man takes a mustard seed and sows it in his field.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up, it is the biggest of all plants. It becomes a tree, so that birds come and make their nests in its branches.”

 

Even though the mustard seed seem small and insignificant, it is still a seed. It has the potential to grow into a a tall plant in which the birds will come and nest on it’s branches.

 

Do not despise the day of small things. God uses the insiginificant for significant purposes.

So what you sow is what you reap. If you sow mercy, you will reap mercy. Everybody got a seed to sow. The question is what type of seed are you sowing?

Thus is the meaning of MercySeed.

(Matthew 18:21-35; 13:31-32)