Friday 12 February 2016

THE WORD OF GOD IS LIKENED TO A SEED

There is no doubt that the miracle of creation started with a word from God. The bible goes on to reaffirm this in the gospel of John where it states that everything God made was done by His word who is still God’s instrument for creation even today. There is therefore, no end to the capacity of the word to create anything that is spoken except the word chooses not to. The scriptures then go on to tell us that God’s word is fully represented in the person of His son – His word in flesh. So we know that the word of God truly has life and is able to give life. For God to make all this effort for us to understand that His word is living and The Creator, it suggests to me that having and accepting that truth must make a difference in the life of a believer. One thing I can say for certain is this - until one realizes the importance of this word, there is a high tendency to treat it like any other word yet therein lies the salvation and hope of mankind. Only God would put something so great in something so little whilst still retaining its power and ability so that it is hard for man to understand and accept the concept. For man is used to treating word as just mere word. Yet, if he treats the word of God as mere word, He would suffer loss untold missing out on most of the things God ordained for him. The answers to our prayers are revealed in the word of God, so we cannot afford to treat the word with the level of carelessness that we would normally treat mere words. We don’t do God a favor by taking His word seriously; we actually do ourselves a lot of good.

John 1: 1, 3 – 4a “In the beginning the word already existed. The word was with God, and the word was God… God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The word gave life to everything that was created,”

Whilst it is true that times have changed and almost everything is fluid, we have a God that never changes so that in all the change going on in life, we must accommodate the reality of our God remaining the same. Our God has chosen to send everything through His word. In a world where we only believe when we see, God is asking us to believe when what we have cannot be seen or touched. It is almost unreal but it is truth. If we must succeed in life and fulfill our destiny then we must accept this reality instead of what we were used to before we came to Christ. This is a real struggle for us so a number of us tend to desperately seek information about the future just to make it easier to hold on to the word. This is leading several believers to several wrong places; they just want this information about their future. They don’t want to leave Christ but they feel a need to know a lot more than God is willing to tell us and they argue that it makes it easier to wait on God but the truth is most of this information comes from familiar spirits who disguise themselves as believers. I guess these believers who operate with familiar spirits are some of those Jude refers to as false brethren. The truth is many of us that go to such believers already suspect that there is something not right about them but we are so desperate to know what God chooses to withhold that we ignore the knowing we have inside. The familiar is a very big problem to us when it comes to receiving miracles because we are set in the way we believe things ought to happen. We need to make urgent adjustments so we don’t miss the appropriate timing for our miracles because God works with times and seasons. When the season rolls away, He who causes the harvest has moved on and without Him, one can do all and yet have zero harvest.

Mathew 9: 38 “So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest.”

Isaiah 55: 11 “It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.”

Jesus often likened the word of God to a seed and I believe that is deliberate. Every seed carries life in it despite that it is little and appears lifeless. The purpose of each seed is already settled just like the word that God sends into our lives. That the seed will do well or die when it is sent, is dependent on other factors like the soil and everything it needs to be nurtured. God always does His part but do we recognize the word He sends as answers to our prayers? It cannot be planted if we do not recognize it as God’s answer to our request. If we treat it as just another word, so it will be but if we take it in and nurture it providing the right environment, it will accomplish its purpose. When God sends His seed, He expects a harvest but we must not frustrate the seed. Our hearts are a major part of what the word becomes in our lives. If we do not recognize the word that is sent to birth our miracles, we may reject it thereby unknowingly, rejecting our miracles also. We must learn to patiently wait on God that we do not miss Him. Patiently waiting on Him does not mean one does nothing at all but that one is attentive to Him even in all that one does. The day is far sent and the return of our Lord is closer than we think. Please let us work while it is yet day and every blessing is meant to help us complete our work; we can’t afford to be so careless that we loose them.

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