Seven Lessons from Seeds
What Can We Learn from Seeds?
Seeds are small, and when planted in the right conditions, their potential is great. From among the smallest of seeds, the mustard seed, grows the largest of trees. “Then the Lord said, ‘If you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you’” (Luke 17:6). You may think your faith is small, but once applied, even a little faith can grow into something big.
Seeds send down a runner beneath the surface. Before making an appearance above ground, the seed first grows beneath the surface. In the same way, we must first go deep in order to find the source of living water to sustain our lives. We must go deep into the Word of God lest we build ourselves on a foundation of shifting sand and get blown over in the first storm that comes into our lives. We must first grow beneath the surface.
A seed can remain dormant like the Methuselah plant that grew after 2,000 years. So we must exhibit patience and wait on God’s timing to grow. Keep on planting and walking by faith, believing that what we’ve sown into our lives and our children’s lives will grow into a bountiful harvest.
Seeds require the right conditions—soil, sunlight, and water—just as our growth requires the whole package, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Remove one of the elements and the seed does not germinate and grow. They must work in unity to produce the healthiest crop both in the natural and in the supernatural. Too much water, too much light, or too much heat can kill the plant. We too must keep a life in balance so that we maintain the mind of Messiah in all things. It is the spiritual mind that equips us for daily life and allows us to maintain balance.
What you sow is what you get. “Then God said, ‘Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.’ And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds” (Gen. 1:11-12). We cannot plant apple seeds and be disappointed when we do not get cucumbers. Seeds of doubt yield a harvest too, and what we sow we will reap.
We did not create the seed, yet we reap the harvest. We are guardians of the seed and are charged with planting it in fertile soil to reap a harvest for the Kingdom of God. Let us share the seed with others so they may also enjoy and be well-fed.
There’s a time to plant. Timing is everything. When we plant, we are to take the time to prepare the soil so that the best environment exists for the success of the seed. Planting too early is just as bad as planting too late. As we plant the seed of the Word in others, let us be sensitive to the right time to plant and the right time to harvest.
Sowing New Seeds
What seeds have you been planting in your life? Is today the day for you to harvest what has been sown in you? Is today the day that the seed of the Lord takes hold in your life and brings a harvest—a harvest that brings new life and provision where there’s been no provision? Is this the day He brings a harvest that will transform your fields from barren and filled with weeds to prosperous and overflowing? You ask, “How do I get that kind of field?”
You say “yes” to the One who came for you. You say “yes” to the One about whom God spoke to the woman when He said, “Your seed will crush the head of the serpent” (see Gen. 3:15). He was speaking of Messiah Yeshua. If you want a new harvest in your life, you have to plant new seed. If you want things to change, you have to make changes in your life, your thoughts, and your way of doing things. You have to do things different from how you have ever done them before. Say, “Yes,I want a new harvest in my life. I want to plant new seeds. I want to turn this old field under. I want to claim for my life Second Corinthians 5:17, ‘Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.’” If you want a new season in your life say “yes” to Yeshua. How do you say yes? You say, “Lord, I am sorry I sinned against You, and I ask Yeshua into my heart. I believe He died for me and rose on the third day and is sitting at the right hand of God interceding for me. Because He lives, I can live now and forevermore. Amen.”
