Did you know that when you plant a seed, the outer shell must die before it grows? It’s interesting to think that maybe, just maybe, the Lord is waiting for a dream to die so room is given for the true dream to grow.
John 12: 24-26
Truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces much fruit. The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in the world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
When I read these verses, I think about the countless dreams that had to be laid down and countless desires that had to be killed. Looking back, I see God’s hand in all of it. I can now see that dying to my dream and desires didn’t mean I wasn’t going to get it back. It just meant I ceased control over it. I ceased trying to make it work in my own strength. I let go and let God.
God WANTS to make your dream grow. He wants to fulfill those desires that HE, himself placed in your heart. But it can only happen once you let go. Whatever wasn’t from Him will fall away and whatever was, shall remain.
Do you want a watered down dream fulfilled that has to be kept in your strength because it started that way? Or do you want God to plant, water and grow it? When God’s got control, He can really work. Like in the previous post, He is a gentleman and will never force you to release anything.
So be reminded today that a dream that dies is a dream that is planted. It’s like the seed. It’s outer shell dies/falls away, then the true work begins. The true work starts. The water washes away the old and nourishes the new. It becomes quickened and is sprouted. The dream that has tasted death now has a chance to flourish into something beautiful. The dreams that expired will now blossom fuller and greener than ever before.
You see, death to something doesn’t mean it’s over.
Death to something doesn’t mean that you lost the fight to whatever that is in your life. But death to that thing, does mean surrender.
Death does mean dying.
And now that “thing”, whatever that is for you, will have a chance to come back, God’s way.
It becomes new and takes on the form it was intended to take this whole time.
As our perspectives shift, we can start to see that even our moments of surrender are types and shadow of what is to come and what has already been won. Death is defeated and Jesus has risen. Even Jesus had to willingly submit to the Father. He only did what He saw His Father doing. He willingly went to die a sinner's death, to then resurrect after 3 days in His new, resurrected body. The ultimate promise was fulfilled through Jesus's death on the cross which brought life for all of us. It was the ultimate satisfied promise. :)
As 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 says in the Passion Translation,
“So death, tell me, where is your victory? Tell me death, where is your sting?
It is sin that gives death its sting and the law that gives sin its power. But we thank God for giving us the victory as conquerors through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.”
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