PLANTING A SEED

“A little girl and her mother were sitting in a church gathering, when the pastor began to pray, “… Oh, Lord, thou knowest we are but dust.”

   Puzzled at what she had just heard, the little girl loudly inquired, “Mommy, what is ‘BUTT DUST’?”

Although I do not know the answer to this perplexing question, it does bring up an interesting reminder of the very genesis of our existence: 

Gen 2:7            And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

WE ARE DUST… SOIL… DIRT – and we retain about 55-78 percent water (some of us more than we would like)

Now… what happens when you plant a seed in warm, moist soil?  It grows, right?  It is a law of God, put into motion at the very conceptualization of the universe that if you place a seed in soil it WILL grow and produce a plant, the very likeness from which the seed originally came.

Gen 8:22  While the earth remaineth,seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Gal 6:7-9          Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

In Mark 4 there is a parable about the sower and the seed, a story which we may have heard… oh… hundreds of times.  After the section that is usually read about all of the different types of soil and how each responds to the seed – or how the seed thrives in that particular type of soil – there is a small passage of about 4 verses that shows the very heart of the parable.

Mark 4:26-29  And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;     And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring andgrow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Mark 4:13-14  And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?        The sower soweth the word.

We ARE the soil… the earth.  The Word is the seed.  If we put in in the warm, moist soil it will produce after it’s own kind -  who HE is in us and us in HIM.  We don’t know how it comes up, or how it grows, BUT… IT WILL COME UP – first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.  We will go to sleep and rise up night and day after night and day, and one day… we will rise up and see the field is ripe unto harvest, and we will thrust in the sickle and reap – a hundred fold return of the promise of THAT SEED.

Jer 1:12            Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

Ezek 12:25       For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

Isa 55:10          So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

2 Cor 9:6         But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

Gal 6:9    And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.