Seeds

John 12:23-26 “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.


Jesus says that a single grain can bear much fruit, but it must die first. The external seed has to die in order for the internal life to emerge. I kind of like that even if it is playing a little with scientific fact. St Paul would say that is the reality of the flesh and the spirit. The external flesh following it's own desires leads to death, while the spirit leads to life. You can put together the master plan. Jesus says he must go in order to send the spirit, and he says that he came that we might have life and have it abundantly. 


For me I've known for a long time that this life, this physical material life, is not all it's cracked up to be. Oh, we can pretend that life is grand and the we have everything we want in life, but if that is only the external life we know we;re only fooling people and perhaps ourselves. When I discovered the spiritual life in Jesus Christ I found life worth living. It was like turning on the light switch and seeing a different world. It was like experiencing life for the first time and it was good. It wasn't as if I lost my life, it was still there, but it had less value to me than the new one. I shared that trip to a new life with Marsha, and that made it even better for sure. Everyone around us has not always understood that journey, and some even disbelieve it, but even now with a lot of fun in my worldly life, it is nothing without that internal spiritual life.