A Seed is a Seed

Last week, I explored the connection between a plant seed and a human seed! If you missed the previous post in our blog series, you can view it here.

As we continue, I have a question for you. Are you seeing what I am seeing? Our loving Father wants us to understand His principles. When God created, He first spoke the word, a Seed, describing what He was creating. That seed of the Word had within it the capability to reproduce itself. However, as it grew, it took the power of the Holy Spirit to bring it into the natural realm where it could be seen. God said, “Let there be light.” When He spoke that Word, it came into existence by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a foundational principle of God. His words are living, creative seed containers that carry images of their intended uses (Hebrews 4:12). 

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The Seed of His Word

We are created in His image, so our words are also creative seeds that contain the substance to reproduce themselves

The Seed of His Word carries His DNA within it. We are created in His image, so our words are also creative seeds that contain the substance to reproduce themselves (Genesis 1:27). In Genesis, He begins to illustrate spiritual principles by using natural illustrations we can understand! See how much God loves us? He wants you and me to get this!

God established the principle of seedtime and harvest in Genesis 1:11 and 8:22-23. He told us that He gave every living thing the ability to grow and multiply through the seed. Then, in Isaiah 55:10-11, He reveals another amazing truth: His Word is a supernatural Seed that operates on this same established seedtime and harvest principle. “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and (natural) bread to the eater, So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, (give spiritual bread) and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent It.” This is the best news! Once we grasp the principle, we can, with the help of the Holy Spirit, put His Word to work in our lives.

Meditate on this truth:

The natural seed supplies bread we can eat to sustain us and give us natural life. Likewise, His written Word can supply supernatural bread (Jesus is the Living Word and the Bread of Life) that can sustain us spiritually, both now and eternally! God sends rain and snow to earth to water the natural seed to produce natural bread. The spiritual counterpart for the natural water is the Holy Spirit. He waters God’s spiritual Word as it is activated to become flesh where we can see it operating with our natural eyes. That spiritual Bread of Life, Jesus, and the revealed written Word can give us eternal life. Do you need His power operating in any particular area of your life? The Holy Spirit can activate the power within the tiny Seed of the Word of God to take you and me places we have never been! Zechariah 4:6 says, “Not by might. Not by power but by My Spirit, says the Lord.” Ponder the possibilities.

We see how God revealed His Word as a Seed from the Old Testament. So, what does the New Testament say? Jesus again uses a natural illustration to demonstrate the seedtime and harvest principle in the Parable of the Sower. In Luke 8:11, He tells us His Word is indeed a Seed: “Now the parable is this: The Seed is the Word of God.” Mark 4:13-20 gives the whole story, but verse 13 emphasizes the importance Jesus places on our understanding of the seedtime harvest concept of the Word. “And He said to them, ‘Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?’” If Jesus says we need to get the full meaning of this parable, then it would be our advantage to look into it!

Now we understand that the Word is a supernatural Seed full of His power and operates under His established seedtime and harvest principle. Let’s look at what this fact means from a practical viewpoint. What can I expect God to do for me as I plant the Seed of the Word of God in my heart? In other words, what’s in it for me?