Sown in Weakness, Raised in Glory

“And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain. . . But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.”

~ 1 Corinthians 15:37-38

What we sow into the ground does not come to life unless it first dies. We never plant the final form – we only plant the bare seed. Once it dies, God gives it a new body to fulfill its purpose. Each seed receives its own unique form and becomes the plant God designed it to be.

We bury a dry, lifeless seed in the soil, and soon there emerges a flourishing plant. There is no visible resemblance between the seed and the plant. We cannot look at the seed and predict what the plant will look like. What we plant and what grows from it look nothing alike.

In the same way, each of us is unprecedented in our own form. What is planted seems small and without beauty, but what rises is glorious and powerful. The seed sown is natural; the life that grows from it is supernatural.