I took this picture using my cellphone camera. It's a little fatter now! I counted all the pineapple tops I planted, there were 23, this is the only one that has bore any fruit. :-) p.s. I do not place any fertilizer or chemical on the pineapple plants.
Here is another favorite song of mine by Corrinne May.
Lyrics of Five Loaves and Two Fishes Corrinne May from the album Beautiful Seed
A little boy of thirteen was on his way to school He heard a crowd of people laughing and he went to take a look Thousands were listening to the stories of one man He spoke with such wisdom, even the kids could understand
The hours passed so quickly, the day turned into night Everyone was hungry but there was no food in sight The boy looked in his lunch box, at the little that he had He wasn't sure what good it'd do, there were thousands to be fed
But he saw the twinkling eyes of Jesus, the kindness in His smile And the boy cried out with the trust of a child, he said,
"Take my five loaves and two fishes Do with it as You will I surrender Take my fears, my inhibitions All my burdens, my ambitions You can use it all To feed them all."
I often think about that boy when I'm feeling small And I worry that the work I do means nothing at all But every single tear I cry is a diamond in His hands And every door that slams in my face, I will offer up in prayer So I'll give You every breath that I have Oh Lord, You can work miracles All You need is my "Amen"
So, take my five loaves and two fishes Do with it as You will I surrender Take my fears, my inhibitions All my burdens, my ambitions You can use it all I hope it's not too small
I trust in You, I trust in You
So take my five loaves and two fishes Do with it as You will I surrender Take my fears, my inhibitions All my burdens, my ambitions You can use it all No gift is too small
I'm not a professional photographer and I only use an old 4-megapixel Olympus digital camera, but I like this picture I took of the infinity pool at the beach resort we went to, which is 125 kilometers south of Manila, Philippines. :-)
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.
