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John 12:24

"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

I have a homework assignment for you this weekend. Don't worry, it's easy and you will enjoy it.

This Friday go to your local store and by a packet of seeds, they can be any kind from flowers to vegetables or fruit.
Now plant some of the seeds in a pot, water and feed it over the weekend according to the instruction on the package. Then on Monday take a look at the pot with the seeds that you planted.
What do you see?
If you said nothing, then you are right.
So what's the fun in that, we want to see results right away.
We all know that a seed dieing and watering a seed and feeding a seed and giving it good light is something Jesus teaches throughout the bible, with the seed dieing representing us dieing to ourselves, and the water as the Holy Spirit and food as the word of God and the light is Jesus Christ.
But if you were to dig up that seed you would notice that it has died, but little sprouts of roots are starting to grow from this dead seed, eventually they would break through to dirt and start to sprout a small plant. Eventually it will start to produce flowers or vegetables or even fruit depending upon what you planted.
So it is with us. When we die to ourselves and we are filled with the Holy Spirit and feed on God's word and Jesus is the light in our lives, we start to sprout, and over time we start to break through from what we were bound under and new life starts to spring forth for all to see. Eventually we will start to produce fruit as we now minister with this new life in Jesus Christ to others.

So what's the moral of all of this?
Yes, a seed must die to produce fruit, but even after it dies, it takes time, love and nourishment before it is of any use.
It's the same in our walk with the Lord, we died to ourselves, but God is carefully and lovingly feeding us and preparing us so that we can produce fruit.
So like the saying goes, "Be patient, God isn't finished with me yet." I would like to change to, "Be patient, it takes a while for a mustard seed to grow into a tree."

Mark 4:31-32 31 "It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32 "but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade."

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