On the same day that Jesus taught the parable of the sower sowing the seed, he also said:
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Mark 4:26-29
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Although this is a simple passage of scripture, its very profound. Its packed with meaning. First of all. It says that the kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground. This is the same principle as in the parable of the sower sowing the seed. God’s word is like a seed planted in the ground of our heart.
Cooperate and Reap
Notice verse 27 says:
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how
In the same way that you plant a seed in the ground and don’t really know what’s happening to make it grow, so it is with the word.
Mankind, with all our knowledge, has put satellites in orbit, people to the moon and sent spacecraft to other planets. For all that mankind has accomplished and all of our cumulative knowledge, we cannot manufacture a seed. Oh! We can make something that looks like a seed, with the same size, color and chemicals. It could look like an exact replica and fool people, but if you take a manmade seed and plant it in the ground, it won’t germinate or reproduce itself. Why? There isn’t any life in it.
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Despite all our knowledge, mankind has not been able to figure out why a seed does what it does. It does what it does just because God created it that way. However, even though we don’t understand all of the specifics, that doesn’t keep us from taking seeds and planting them in the ground. We’ve learned a few things about how long it takes for that seed to germinate and produce a harvest. We’ve learned enough about a seed to be able to cooperate with it, but we still don’t understand it. Yet it works.
Every one of us benefit from seeds sown around the world when we eat our bread, fruit and vegetables we don’t understand it, but we still benefit from it.
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This is tremendous comfort to me. I don’t have to understand everything about how the word works. I don’t have to understand why just shutting myself in with the Lord, studying his word, and listening to hum speak to me does what it does. The fact that I can’t really explain it doesn’t keep me from cooperating and reaping the benefits of it.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, or the sharpest person around. You don’t have to understand everything to get God’s word working in your life, just start sowing the word into your heart. Begin mediating on it day and night. The word of God will germinate, take root, spring forth and grow up of itself.
God put life in those seeds. Man cannot figure it out but God spoke life into physical seeds. He’s also spoken life into the spiritual seeds of his word
God’s word contains his life in it. If you would take his words, his sayings and put them on the inside of you, then God’s kind of life would start flowing through you. You would find the healing, prosperity, joy, peace-everything Jesus provided-are contained in God’s word
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The Bible isn’t like any other book. It’s different, it’s alive
For the word of God is quick {alive] and powerful and sharper than any edged sword
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Hebrews 4:12
God’s word is alive, it’s different than reading any other book- even books about the Bible. The word of God is different. There’s life in it. If you take it, the word will give you life where there’s been death. It gives light where there is darkness. It’s that simple
