"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed intothe ground, And should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how." (Mark 4:26-27)
What does the farmer do after he has cast the seed into the ground? He goes to sleep at night, and about his business in the daytime.
What does he do, to make the seed grow? Nothing? Why not? Because he doesn't know how it grows. Since "he knows not how" the seed grows, it is therefore impossible for him to do anything to make it grow; and so like a sensible man he lets it grow.
It is a grand thing when a man knows enough to keep his hands off, and not interfere in a thing of which he knows nothing.--Present Truth, February 10, 1898--Timeline: IV-24 (Sermon by the Sea)--Mark 4:26-27.