Your Life is a Seed

Life is a seed. You and I were placed here for a purpose, to bear fruit and bring a bountiful harvest for God – our Maker. Interestingly, every life is also ground that receives seed from other sources. Whatever grows out of your life is a result of what seeds where sown into it.

Let me share my experience.

Comparing my life to about five years ago is very interesting. I see major shifts in how I view life in at least three areas: money, the media and relationships. I have come to a deep realization that people are gifts from God. This worldview has helped me to get interested in people and value relationships with family, church members, workmates,friends and even strangers.

I have come to see money as an earthly substance of exchange that one can invest for eternal value. This belief system has come from the teachings I am exposed to and a community of disciples I identify with. The Bible is clear about how bad company corrupts good morals. The same applies to good company. Getting direction on Biblical doctrine is priceless. I feel blessed to have access to people who empower me by bringing out the potentials of Christ in me. All this is to say that the environment dictates the kind of person one becomes.

Through media, I see a big opportunity to multiply the message of Jesus not just an avenue for personal entertainment. People need to be set free by the truth of the message of the cross. I will not burn valuable time swiping through content not vetted by God’s word. About 90% of my work is online, but I watch out for the images and videos I will allow into my heart and mind.

Last week, I saw how crucial mindset is. I had a choice between using money to buy myself some new shoes and addressing needs that had come back-to-back regarding God’s Kingdom. I chose to invest my “shoes money” into the kingdom. Almost immediately, someone gave me more than ten pairs of shoes, all very pretty. See what Jesus means when He says He “clothes the lilies in the field and feeds the birds of the air.”

All that is to say that my life (evidenced in my choices and decisions) is literally becoming a “harvest” of the seeds being sown into my life through God’s truth. Here are three areas I have seen the result of changes in worldview for me:

I see that choosing where to invest money is crucial. One cannot forgo an earthly item for an eternal issue and lack. God is faithful to His Word.

What you watch and listen to is detrimental because it shapes who you become, whether you like it or not.

You cannot claim to love Jesus and not His people. This has helped me cultivate a Biblical view of relationships, something I never had before now.

Whatever one commits to in life is crucial because it dictates what comes out of your life. This is because life is a seed. A seed has the potential to grow. But the environment in which this seed is planted is what matters. No doubt it will germinate, but how further than that will it go? If it gets choked and dies, that’s the end. This is not a big deal because whenever plants don’t do well, the farmer will buy other seeds and try them out in the next planting season with the hope that the plants will do better this time. But our life is represented by only one seed. There is no second life. This means that there is no place for trial and error. The first decision about what to do with the seed has to be correct. Otherwise, there is no room for correction.

Here’s the bottom line: Sow the right seeds into your life and reap a harvest of righteousness. Sow your life as a seed of righteousness and see God multiply your impact in other lives.