Are we seeds?

Are we seeds?

Many times throughout the Bible God used agricultural terms to explain things to His people, as He spoke through His prophets, through the Lord Jesus, and also through the apostles. As we know, societies were primarily agricultural back then. The Lord always used sowing, reaping, seedtime, harvest, chaff, winnowing, threshing and many other agricultural terms like spring rain, latter rain, to explain His kind of care, His future judgments, His blessings, and other things. But what about the seed?

I found these verses on people being seeds planted by the Lord.

We are a Planting of the Lord

Isaiah 61:3
...They (-meaning those in Zion) will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.

We are seeds whom the Lord has planted. As Corrinne May said in her introductory spiel to "Beautiful Seed" at her concert:
"...the seed is such a beautiful metaphor for ourselves and our lives. We start off being really really tiny and really small, very insignificant actually that you even need an ultrasound to see that little dot in the mother's womb. But then all the potential for who we are and who we will be is already there and that's so amazing to me.. that everything that we are, we just came from that small insignificant seed."

God has a dream for each of us even before we were born.God said, "before I formed you in the womb, I knew you"(Jeremiah 1:5). Psalm 139:16 says, "all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." He placed us in the world as a tiny seed in our mother's womb, to grow and grow into His dream for us.

We Must Die to Ourselves : Let God Plant You in the Ground

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
John 12:24-26

As we follow Christ, we take up our cross and follow Him in His death, but in following Him,we have life. And because He rose from the dead, we have hope after death and power over sin. True freedom is found in following Jesus. The abundant life is the life that is surrendered and obedient to God. Not the life wherein one follows his own dreams and ambitions. It has been said, "there is no destination that is impossible to reach when one walks with God". Let God guide you and hold your hand. The most miserable and empty life is a life lived apart from and in rebellion against God.

Place yourself in the Maker's hands as a seed. Let God put His plans and purposes in your life. Let go of yours. Let Him plant you. You are a beautiful seed.