Have you been to Home Depot
lately? Seed packets are in! Last fall I went looking too late; there were
no spinach seeds to be found. So when I
was there a few days ago I got some for early planting and picked up some
Brussels sprouts on a whim. They were
only $1.59. Even if I harvest nothing at
all, it’s worth that much to dig in the dirt and enjoy the experiment.
I was thinking about those little
brown spinach seeds this morning in Sunday School. In the Christian Life class we are working
our way through a study of end-time events.
We started out going through the Gospel of John, and someone asked a
question that got us into this study. We started it in June and are still going
strong in Revelation. I love the people I meet with on Sunday mornings, but
today I got sort of stuck on one verse and couldn’t keep my mind following the
discussion, as interesting as it was.
Here’s where my thoughts kept
landing: I Corinthians 15:35-38—“But someone
will say, ‘How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?’
Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body
that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives
it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.”
“To each seed its own body”—Think
of that! I don’t know if you’ve planted
spinach, but the seed is a tiny little brown ball, a bit larger than a pin
head. Inside that hard little nugget is the blueprint for lovely, tender,
nourishing, green leaves. Inside a little black apple pip is a complete tree
with a trunk and places for bird nests and blossoms every spring. It’s a magnificent and amazing plan. Paul was making a point about resurrection in
his discussion, and it’s going to take some long meditating for me to have a really
good handle on what he was conveying.
But all spring I’m going to have an opportunity to see the analogy in
action right in my own back yard!
I can’t wait.
--Sherry Poff
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