I am not a farmer, but I enjoy gardening. The experience of putting a tiny wrinkled speck in the ground and watch what comes up fascinates me. Within a week or two, a green sprout emerges. After several weeks a full on plant develops, and within 90 days you are picking large, luscious fruit from this product of a little seed. All I did was put it in the ground and watered it.
We all arrived here via an invisible seed impregnating an egg the size of the period at the end of this sentence. The miracle of life occurs and an individual is born and develops into a person.
The Bible declares how terrific seeds are and the role they play in the big picture of life.
1Corinthians 15:37 & 38: (ESV) And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
We all may be amazed at the remarkable ways seeds function to produce life in the most simple forms of life to the most sophisticated animals, including man. But, there is one seed that completely exceeds all others. It is the new birth seed a person receives when they believe the Word of God and get saved, becoming a child of God (Romans 10:9 and Romans 8:16 & 17). That seed is incorruptible and abides forever in the child of God.
1Peter 1:23: (KJV) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
This seed is perfect and cannot sin. We may sin in our flesh, but our spiritual life comes from an incorruptible seed, so we cannot sin through that seed.
1John 3:9: (KJV) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
As I plant seeds in my garden this Spring and watch the life grow from them, I will always think of and be grateful to the Heavenly Father for the incorruptible seed He gave me. With this fascinating seed I have eternal life and an upcoming new body at the return of Christ!
Agape,
Bob