Spring is a time for seed-planting and growing. The cold and dead of winter brought a number of spots in my own yard that needed to be covered with grass seed. That seed has already sprouted and brought life to those dead patches of earth.
It’s no wonder that Jesus uses seeds in many of His sermons and parables. We can relate to this illustration. It’s down to earth and a part of everyday life. In Jesus’ parable of the Sower and the Seed in Matthew chapter thirteen for example, He speaks about the kinds of soil the seeds of God’s Word may fall upon. He speaks about the corruption of the soil and the enemies that attack the seed. And yet, despite all these obstacles, miraculously, the seed grows and produces a crop.
The Holy Spirit teaches us in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians in Corinth something similar about the corruption of our sinful flesh. We know the seed of our sinful parents brought life to us, but a life that was sown in corruption and ultimately dies. The prophet Ezekiel says, “The soul that sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:20). Our mortal body has been sown in corruption. Where is there hope?
Yet, our confidence is in what God’s Word teaches us about the resurrection of the dead. King Hezekiah, trusted in what the Lord had done for him and said, “But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back” (Isaiah 38:17). Like grass seed that has been covered, we trust in the covering blood of Jesus Christ’s death for sin forgiven. We also rest our confidence in resurrection beyond the grave in Christ, our Savior. So rejoice anew each day that Jesus promises that your body too, though sown in corruption, will be raised in incorruption for all eternity! |
