Daily Devotional Tuesday Thoughts | June 2, 2026
It’s Tuesday, and time for your daily devotional. Jesus includes women in His parables. They were integral to His ministry and were dedicated even until the end. Jesus demonstrates inclusivity by likening the Kingdom of Heaven to a woman performing an ordinary task. In today’s daily devotional, from common things, learn how you can be an influence in the world around you.
Growth of God’s Kingdom
In Matthew 13:33, Jesus tells another brief parable like the mustard seed one before it. He continues to demonstrate the growth of God’s kingdom by the gospel: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” God rules in the hearts of those who have surrendered their lives to Him. This is called the Kingdom of Heaven, for Heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool.
When you enter into a covenant with Him, you join a host of believers past, present, and future who make up His kingdom. It exists in the spiritual realm. It’s where God reigns, and His glory does prevail. In this parable, the kingdom is compared to leaven. In your daily devotional, as a part of God’s kingdom on earth, you’ve been charged to promote and advance it.
Leaven Transforms
Leaven is another word for yeast, and when it’s added, it makes dough rise. In the Bible, leaven often represents sin and corruption. Because leaven transforms the nature of dough, it represents growth that’s pervasive and spreads throughout a substance, causing change. Jesus warned His followers about the leaven of the Pharisees, for they were self-seeking and hypocritical. They didn’t care about the things of God, but promoted their own interests.
Likewise, in Galatians 5:9, Paul cautioned, “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” At Passover, Jewish households were commanded to remove leaven as a sign of the removal of sin and impurity. In this daily devotional, the Master can take something that represents evil and turn it into something that symbolizes good.
The Image of Christ
In this parable, a woman takes leaven and adds it to three measures of meal. It’s her work that she does to feed her household, just as ministers work to leaven souls through the gospel. Once kneaded, the leaven is hidden inside the meal, no longer visible in its original form. Having made contact with the meal, it ferments, changing its nature. As the leaven spreads throughout the dough, it rises, which it wouldn’t have done without it.
Instead of flatbread, it produces a fully risen loaf. The heart, like the meal, is pliable and soft, and it must be kneaded, or broken, so the word of God can spread throughout it, developing you into a vessel fit for the kingdom. The gospel, like leaven, spreads throughout the earth, changing the nature of those who once lived in sin and darkness. And when the righteous rule, the people rejoice. In your daily devotional, the word changes your heart, increasing your faith, slowly and by degrees as you’re being transformed into the image of Christ.
The Gospel is Hidden in Your Heart
In Tuesday’s daily devotional, the gospel is hidden in your heart and transforms your life, as leaven kneaded in dough, so its taste and flavor can be enjoyed. The gospel also affects souls whose hearts are open to it. In today’s daily devotional, it’s God’s will that all men be saved or that the whole lump be leavened. Like leaven, be an influence for change in the world around you.
