As a kid, I recall
often cracking open various types of seeds and imagining how all that stuff
inside could turn into a plant, then a fruit or vegetable, with the help of
some dirt, water, and sunshine! Yep, I still enjoy pondering about seeds.
While reflecting on
the fact that God does everything (possibly except miracles) based on the ‘seed-time-harvest’ principle, it dawned
on me that of this trio, seed is the core of God’s productive engine, and is
the part we know least about. We understand time and harvest, but seed??
What is seed?
Here’s my take, which I hope will be memorable for you, too:
S.E.E.D. --> A
package of DNA
Sent from Eternity to Earth to Die
Seeds are God’s express, highly efficient packages of DNA dispatched to Earth with a not-so-secret two-step mission:
- Die!
- In dying, allow Me to produce in Earth fruit according to your assigned DNA.
So in God’s
economy, death of various kinds is the... doorway to fruit production, i.e.,
being fruitful.
Jesus summarized
God’s grand scheme in this manner:
Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the
ground and dies,
it remains alone; but if it dies, it
produces much grain.
(John 12:24)
To illustrate this
grand scheme, Jesus, Himself, became a seed, was planted by the Holy Spirit in
the womb of Mary, later died, and in His death, gave life eternal to us who accept His death
as God’s substitutionary payment for our sin. Thus, in us, He is very fruitful.
While we recognize
this principal applies to agriculture and procreation of living things, could
it also apply to inanimate objects, including ideas, concepts, projects,
relationships, careers, programs, etc.?
Possibly except for the babies we abort, we humans have a strong tendency to fight
to keep things alive, thinking that in doing so, we will ensure their
fruitfulness. Thus, we struggle, push, shove, connive, manipulate to assure,
and then try to extend the life of things, not realizing they may well be
S.E.E.D. All seed is destined first
to die. In resisting their death, might we be postponing their
true mission, which, through their death, could be to usher us into fresh, new
fruitful dimensions of L.I.F.E.?
L.I.F.E. --> Love’s Infusions From Eternity
We humans also have
a proclivity to tinker with seeds, altering their DNA. DNA is God’s
uniquely-assigned purpose for
fruitfulness in the Earth. Its very name (or more accurately, its acronym)
seems to reverberate loudly The Creator’s message:
D.N.A. --> Do Not
Alter!
But as with
literally every other facet of His instructions for peaceful, fruitful, long
life on Earth, we set about to do the exact opposite. If it can
be altered, in our pride, we will find a way, whether it’s agricultural
seeds, animals and fish, or human fetuses, babies and, most recently, even adults.
Afterward...
We wonder why our societies
and systems are so out of sync.
We ponder, ‘What’s that stench
emanating from our world so strong?’
We wonder about the seeds and
roots of calamities in which we sink.
But fail to ponder how we
messed up this world that to God belongs.
So when you next confront ‘something’ that just seems to scream:
“Let go! You’re holding me too
tightly. Let go, I say!
I have an assignment to
fulfill God’s DNA dream!”
Then step back, let ‘er go, and
let God rule the day.
That which you’re holding, its
life to start or stretch out,
May well be a S.E.E.D. -- Sent from Eternity to Earth to Die,
Die some form of death before
new life can sprout.
In faith, let it
die; don’t give it ‘another ole college try’.
Ponder the many forms of death
that are possible,
Then ask God which death it
may really need to die.
He may likely reveal the death
that is palpable,
Is very closely tied to your
ole foolish pride.
