I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies it produces many seeds.”
I have often struggled in understanding what this means because when something dies there is no life left to produce anything else. This is the world’s understanding of life. I am not an agriculturalist, but it is known that when seeds are planted they grow to produce plants which then produce more seeds, which when planted will produce further seeds.
This is a law of God. I thought not everything works this way. Humans die and there remains nothing but a skeleton. Animals die and there remains nothing but skeletons, so why are seeds different?
When people die, it is only then, when others reflect upon the life of that person, and what they have achieved. Their possessions are searched for any gems they may have kept.
Anything interesting which is written is published or at least circulated for others to read what they had learnt. Possessions are passed on for others to enjoy or placed in museums as objects of life gone by, to show how they have been used to enable us to learn to produce better things which then give us a better life.
If the works of those who die are good, then their works are published to benefit other people, professionally or otherwise. Sometimes, it is only when these works are found, that progress can be truly made in that particular field, perhaps due to the selfishness of those who died.
God’ word is often given us as seeds. We have to let these die. We have to let them lodge in the back of our minds and in our heart, where in certain circumstances, they are brought back when we can use them to help us. As we eat the word, some of it drops away, in our hearts and minds. It dies. It produces further thoughts and character. We teach others what we have learnt stemming from these seeds, so yes, as we let the word of God settle into our lives, it produces further seeds in others as we live our lives and as we teach.
I have often struggled in understanding what this means because when something dies there is no life left to produce anything else. This is the world’s understanding of life. I am not an agriculturalist, but it is known that when seeds are planted they grow to produce plants which then produce more seeds, which when planted will produce further seeds.
This is a law of God. I thought not everything works this way. Humans die and there remains nothing but a skeleton. Animals die and there remains nothing but skeletons, so why are seeds different?
When people die, it is only then, when others reflect upon the life of that person, and what they have achieved. Their possessions are searched for any gems they may have kept.
Anything interesting which is written is published or at least circulated for others to read what they had learnt. Possessions are passed on for others to enjoy or placed in museums as objects of life gone by, to show how they have been used to enable us to learn to produce better things which then give us a better life.
If the works of those who die are good, then their works are published to benefit other people, professionally or otherwise. Sometimes, it is only when these works are found, that progress can be truly made in that particular field, perhaps due to the selfishness of those who died.
God’ word is often given us as seeds. We have to let these die. We have to let them lodge in the back of our minds and in our heart, where in certain circumstances, they are brought back when we can use them to help us. As we eat the word, some of it drops away, in our hearts and minds. It dies. It produces further thoughts and character. We teach others what we have learnt stemming from these seeds, so yes, as we let the word of God settle into our lives, it produces further seeds in others as we live our lives and as we teach.
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