“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so (Gen. 1:11).
Seed – the essential element of transmitting life. There is a threefold usage of this word in Scripture.
(1) Agricultural. The farmer held his seed in his upturned garment, casting it out as he walked.
(2) Physiological. “Seed of copulation” (Lev. 15:16). The New Testament speaks of Christians as having been begotten by God—“of incorruptible seed” (1st Peter 1:23, 1st John 3:9).
(3) Figurative. Here seed means descendents (Gen. 13:16) or genealogy (Ezra 2:59).
Dear Ones, please know that every seed reproduces after itself. If you want tomatoes, you plant tomatoes, peppers, you plant peppers. If you want love, you must plant love. If you want mercy, sew mercy. If you want grace, sew grace. If you want joy, you must sew joy. If you want peace, sew peace; meekness, sew meekness. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7).
As members of the Body of Christ, we have been born of God and His seed remains in us and therefore we are new creations. Can I tell you “We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” As believers in the faith, we share with father Abraham the promise that is “sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of faith.” (Romans 4:16).
Pastor J. Amos Jones
