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Resurrection Seeds
by Debby Topliff on May 27, 09 • no comments • Share This
Seedlings
My neighbor and I have started a garden. My favorite part of the process is planting the seeds and watching the seedlings sprout. I love their diversity—peas with tendrils, bumpy beets, tiny carrots with furry tops, round radishes.
Yesterday I was reading through I Corinthians 15 and pondered what Paul says about resurrection bodies beginning in verse 35. “Someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’....What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.”
This morning I thought, what if the life we choose to live right now is the “seed factory” of our eternal being? What if an earthly life of bitterness and unresolved anger becomes the seed for an ugly, tormented soul? And the reverse: what kind of eternal body would grow from a life of generosity and love? I hope to find out!
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