What Is The Meaning Of A Spiritual Seed?
Good Morning Friends,
God said in the Bible some things that are very profound about seeds. There are more than 250 verses in the Bible that speak directly about seeds. There are grass seeds, fruit seeds, and the seeds of a man, the seeds of a woman, the seeds of children, and the seeds of the word of God. There are the seeds of our words, the seed of the Body of Christ, the seed of the Church and the seed of our physical body. With something so important I thought that today we would explore this topic. What Is The Meaning Of A Spiritual Seed?
Scripture: But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49 (NRSV)
When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of moisture. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!” Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive, and listening they may not understand.’ “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones on the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. The ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe only for a while and in a time of testing fall away. As for what fell among the thorns, these are the ones who hear; but as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. But as for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.
Luke 8:4-15 (NRSV)
Message: Spiritual growth is a very natural process much like that of the growth of a plant from a seed. The planting of seeds and the harvesting of the fruits are a part of the essential design of God’s creation as well as being an essential part of God’s hidden nature and character. A seed is a self-contained unit designed for the reproduction of a species that has a spiritual as well as physical meaning. A seed contains specific qualities that enables it to work even after extended times outside of the normal environment that they like to grow in. Seed is a unique word that can either be taken as a single unit or as a plural word meaning multiple instances of the same reproductive unit. The first mention of seed in the Bible is within the context of the first chapter of Genesis when God creates the world that we all live in. God says “Let the earth bring forth grass yielding seed”. Then we have the parable of the Sower. There are many valuable things to learn from this parable. We see that seeds play a key role in the spread of the Kingdom of God. Seed laws play a key role in understanding this teaching. Here we learn that God’s word will always produce more people like God. We also might see that as this seed we are joint heirs with Christ by marriage covenant. The church is the Bride of Christ and this too is a seed. So essentially, the seeds of God are truths that take hold within one’s own mind and spirit. These seeds can create a great harvest as they are imprinted on all of mankind. At the core of the abundant life is the knowledge that there is life after death and that we are now living our eternal lives. This touches on just a small part of the spiritual meaning of seed.
Pray we are good stewards of the Word. Pray we understand the law of sowing and reaping. Pray we desire growth. Pray we test our soil. Pray we prepare our heart. Pray we sow seeds of faith. Pray that we prepare our hearts and minds, so the seeds of love might grow in us. Pray that we put down deep roots breaking through the barriers that keep us living shallow lives. Pray that we live in the light, drinking deep the water of life. Pray that the worries of life not choke out our spiritual development. Pray that we hunger for the seed and soil of His Word…hunger and desire with all our hearts His Love so that it might produce a bountiful harvest in our lives. Pray we do not focus on the death of the seed but in the life that springs forth from it when we believe in the resurrection and the life everlasting.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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