There is something special about seeds...I can remember as a kid getting the little peat packs that you would soak in water and then add seeds too watching them grow slowly over the course of a few weeks until they were strong enough to go outside and be planted...
Jesus spoke several times of seeds. How faith as small as a mustard seed could move mountains, how seeds cast on several different types of ground were either recieved, choked out or removed, then in foreshadowing His death he said that unless a seed go into the ground and die it abides alone... and in 1 Peter 1:23 we are told that we are born again of incorruptible seed!
The thing that facinates me about seeds is that they are the promise, the potential and the genetic composition of something greater than itself!
Look at an acorn...it's just an acorn! But purposed within the dna structure of that acorn is the composition of a might oak tree that can uproot sidewalks, and tower over houses!
Seeds have the potency of big things packed in their small body!
When I was single I saw the "Incorruptibility of the Seed" very powerfully displayed in my dear 'Mama Ward'...My Great grandmother who was extremely senile...but when you mentioned Jesus, she became fully aware and able to discuss with clarity Her love for Him, Her appreciation of the scriptures, Her desire and knowledge that soon she would be with Him....Even though her outward man was perishing, including her mind...the years of diligent study of God's word and precious relationship with Christ was undiminished!
When we get the word of God in us, as that germinates and takes root within us we have the potential for great things, things that bring forth great fruit, eternal weight, glory and power.
It is amazing to me how much God desires to radically effect change in us and how that starts with Jesus (the Word of God) at work in our lives....But unless those seeds are permitted to take root, we will only have a form of religion, something that may look holy, but actually denies the power of God to work its wonder in us...
Let the seeds grow, they may uproot some other things, but God's produce is far superior to anything we can grow on our own!
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