Given September 1, 2009

Think of what you know about a seed.  You plant a seed in the ground, water it, and wait.  Soon it sprouts, breaks the ground, you keep the weeds away, and the former seed blossoms into a beautiful plant.  And…produces more seeds for the process to replicate.

You may not have thought of it this way.  The seed contains within itself all the attributes of its parent.  An acorn has within its 3/4s of an inch everything the 60 foot tall adult oak tree will be.  If planted in the ground and cared for properly, it will reproduce like its parent and become like its parent.  Can we agree with that?  Sure.

When we got saved, the seed of Jesus was planted in us.  “The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.” Galatians 3:16.  All the potential of the parent is there.  We must water it with the Word, nurture it, keep the weeds out, and it WILL produce the Father in us.  It is possible.  The apostle Paul said, “We have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16.  And John says, “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:2.  Think about it, it’s in us.

And, one other thing; most plants produce fruit.  We are to produce fruit and be know by it, Matthew 7:16, and that reflects our parent.  But I heard something else the other day; fruit is not produced for the benefit of the plant, it is for the benefit of others.  A tree doesn’t eat its own apple.  It is known by the apple but the apple is solely for someone else.  What do you think about this?