Slowness Over Speed: Lessons from the Mustard Seed
The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
4.8 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In today’s episode, we’re tackling a powerful yet countercultural truth: God’s way is slow, small, and often weak—and that’s exactly why it’s unstoppable.
So many of us are addicted to speed. We rush decisions, launch initiatives prematurely, and burn ourselves out in the name of productivity. But this impatience not only sabotages our leadership—it blinds us to the quiet, steady work of God.
Drawing from the profound parable of the mustard seed, we’ll explore how the Kingdom of God begins small and seemingly insignificant but grows into something world-changing. Together, we’ll unpack three key lessons: the value of slowness, the power of small beginnings, and the surprising strength found in weakness.
This episode is a wake-up call to embrace patience and resist the cultural obsession with instant results. Whether you’re leading a church, raising a family, or shaping your community, God invites you to align your pace with His—and trust that His plan is advancing in ways we may not see.
Slow down. Listen in. Discover the mustard-seed way of leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. |
| 0:03.3 | Want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | Great to be with you. |
| 0:08.9 | Our theme today is slowness over speed lessons from the mustard seed. |
| 0:17.1 | What a phenomenal topic. |
| 0:19.7 | So like any addict, we have a very difficult time stopping from living and leading from high speed. |
| 0:28.9 | We're hooked being productive, maximizing our time and our energy and our resources. |
| 0:34.7 | These are supreme values in Western culture, and they're also |
| 0:39.9 | supreme values in Western Christian culture. And so fast success is just built into all of us |
| 0:50.4 | in every arena of life. It's just particularly deadly for the spiritual life. And so it |
| 0:58.1 | results in all kinds of challenges, from chronic impatience to relationship breaking and violence, |
| 1:05.4 | to decision making that is premature and faulty to releasing and birthing new initiatives without a proper |
| 1:13.8 | gestation period to our own spirits shrinking from the anxiety and the heavy yokes that we're |
| 1:21.8 | carrying. And we often end up mistaking and misjudging what is God actually doing. Where is God? And we don't see what he's doing. |
| 1:30.0 | We can't even see it clearly. And we think we're actually advancing God's mission, but much like |
| 1:36.3 | the 12 disciples and the Gospels, we're actually holding it back. And so this parable of the mustard |
| 1:41.9 | sea that I know you're familiar with, it is so profound. |
| 1:45.8 | It's so far reaching. |
| 1:48.0 | I suspect it will take eternity to unpack the fullness of what's in this simple two-verse |
| 1:56.3 | parable from Jesus, of who God is, how he works, how we are to live for him, how we are to lead for him, |
| 2:02.8 | all the implications. And so Jesus is addressing doubts in his day and challenges people are |
| 2:09.0 | having with the way his kingdom was unfolding, discouragement, impatience with him. And so he knows |
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