What kind of yeast do you want to be?

Morning: Psalms 66, 67; Jeremiah 14:1-9,17-22; Galatians 4:21-5:1

Evening: Psalms 19, 46; Mark 8:11-21

Yeast is a remarkable, tiny, living, sugar-eating organism that produces carbon dioxide and makes bread rise. Jesus warns about the ‘yeast of the Pharisees’. His followers do not understand, even when he reminds them of how he multiplied loaves of bread. Jesus means that the Pharisees’ arguments could grow into a ferment of resistance to God’s ways. Jesus implies that there is another kind of ‘yeast’ that will get into the ‘dough’ of the world’s life and make it grow in justice and goodness. He seems to be asking: What kind of yeast do you want to be?