The seed, the shoot, the leaves, the blossom, the fruit, the harvest, the person who receives the fruit.
We can easily take for granted the fruit we buy at the store. Unless we consider the work that someone did to prepare the soil for a seed, to grow a tree, to water, to fertilize, to protect the tree from harm, to protect the blossoms, to protect the fruit, to get the fruit harvested at the right time and for it to get to the market to get to the people, then we dont understand the power of the seed or the honor and respect due the Lord who causes the growth.
It begins with a seed. The end result is to be a fruit to be harvested for someone else. It all begins with something so small you would think it is insignificant.
In the seed is the identity. In the identity is the Life. In the Life is the Fruit. In the Fruit is the seed.
We must never lose sight of who we are, not in our self identity but in our God identity. If we do not know what that means then our identity is at stake, the fruit, the life, the blossom, the leaves, the stem, the seed. We will not protect what we do not see the value of.
This is a new season upon us in which we are growing up into who we are just as a flower seed or vegetable seed grows up into who the seed destined them to be. We are destined for beauty, for glory, for honor, for fruitfulness, for life and for love. The one who destined us by His very Life is watching over His seed and He is zealous for you to grow up into all you were created to be.
When you are flowing apart from your identity, you will notice the peace and joy are not there. That is because peace and joy and life and love are of who you are.
So we are waking up this Spring into a realization that the beauty of who God created us to be is so glorious, that we don't ever want to depart from Him any more because He is our identity; the divine identity which is the most precious of all we want to protect.
You are here at this time because God wanted you. God wanted you because He loved you. He loved you because He chose to. He chose you because it is His will, His desire, His good pleasure to love you.
He began you as a seed to come into fullness. In the seed is the identity of who you are and the fullness of which you are to reach for and attain and in each moment, there He is. God does not live apart from His creation. God will not live apart from you. Your walk with God will determine the measure of fullness.
Enjoy a new season, a new time of fruitfulness as you reach for who you were created to be and let go of who you are not.
In His Grace and Love
Julie
