Unless it Dies

I Corinthians 15 cont’d:

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.  When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

When we try to analyze with our minds the resurrection of the dead, we fall short because we can’t comprehend it.

However, look at a tiny seed that we plant in the ground.  That seed dies and then what comes up out of the ground doesn’t look like that seed at all.  The plant that emerges was already given its DNA in the tiny seed before the seed sprouts and appears to all in the glory of its beautiful bloom.

To me, the fact that something so large and beautiful can emerge from something so tiny and brown is amazing.  It’s beyond my comprehension and doesn’t even make sense at all.

God made us in his image to be a beautiful reflection of his love, but we have to die first – to ourselves and to sin.  Just like a seed that is buried in the dirt.  We also will die physically, our bodies buried beneath the ground.

Why then, if we see with our eyes how a seed that is so small it gets lost in the dirt grows into breathtaking tulips, roses, and redwood trees – is it so hard for us to believe that if we too die and allow God to water us and shine his light into our hearts – that we will emerge into something even more beautiful and of much more value than any flower on the earth?

I believe.  Do you?