This is God’s plan for the earth!
Isaiah 55:10-11
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
The purpose of rain is to water the earth and assist with the growth of the seeds that are planted. Because of the rain, seeds can grow and reproduce. We have a place called “Namakwaland” in South Africa that is semi dessert. Most of the year it is dry and barren. Then when the rain cones it transforms into a landscape of flowers. Seed can stay in the ground for years being dry, but when the rain comes, the seeds grow and produce what is in it.
Rain and water are types of the Holy Spirit. Jesus says that the spirit will be a river of living water in us – John 7:37-39.
In Luke 8:11 Jesus explains the parable of the sower. “The seed is the Word.”
We have both the seed(Word) and the rain(Holy Spirit) in us. Sometimes people have the word of God in their hearts but the Holy Spirit has not been invited to water that seed. So they constantly struggle to see the reality of the Word in their lives. We need both the seed and the rain. We need both the Word and the Spirit.
Seeds have potential:
The fruit of the seed is in it. When you see seed, do you see the seed or do you see the tree with the fruit. The potential of a harvest is in each seed. Once the seeds are planted, it dies and births the harvest. That is what Jesus says in the book of John.
John 12:24 Verily, verily I say unto you, except a seed falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bring forth much fruit.
The dying releases the potential. Inside the seed are the fruit that will reproduce seeds. Those fruits will have seeds that look like the first seed and have the same potential to produce when it dies. What a wonderful concept. Jesus was the seed that died so that he can produce us, looking just like him and having the same potential to produce a harvest. When we die to ourselves we give birth to the next generation that will produce a harvest looking like Jesus.
Seeds can be wasted.
When a farmer stop sowing, even if it rains, he will not have a harvest to bless him. Too many times people stop sowing seeds and when the blessing of God comes, they are without a blessing or a harvest. The kingdom are advancing and we constantly sow seeds that will produce a harvest in the future.
The rain does not discriminate against the seed. It doesn’t fall on good seeds only. The bible says that God makes it to rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous. The seeds you are planting is your choice. The bad seeds will produce as much as the good seeds. The rain doesn’t wait until you planted good seeds.
Digging up the seeds will stun its growth or even kill it. You have to trust that the seed will produce what is in it. The harvest takes time. The farmer has to be patient for both the rain and the harvest.
What seeds are we planting right now. Sometimes we don’t know until the harvest as only the fruit reveals what was in the seed.
Words are seed that we plant for a harvest. Speak life and not death.
Prov 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.
