Message #3688

[ecuworrier]

John 12 24

24 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.

someone referenced this word for a thought for the day... and i was curious about the phrasing talking about a grain of wheat dying as it transforms into a new being i guess like a chrysalis turning into a butterfly all the information contained within form yielding another... i searched the word on biblegateway and did not quite find what i was looking for in the OT.... and so but i noticed the corinthians ref and started reading it... sometimes our translations are weird....   sometimes our notions mean something else... i had an interesting case earlier when i was praying and had a word and it was half english and half another language... i asked those present to represent the term in english cos i couldn't tink of it and between us it seemed the foreign word was somehow more complete so GOD had given this.... however a word that means life being translated as death? i rummaged through the Cor 15 ref... and was kindof thinking hey Paul was of the same era and language spectrum and so there he is using words like death that mean  life life bearing even and talking about transformation the point at which life becomes transformed to mean something more pertinent... useful to yield new lives... and i thought about the transformation that takes place at the crucifixion.. the death that becomes a life to yield many fruits for ever? or so... teachings dominate out culture... but it is a tenuous conviction to hold a whole doctrine by a word used that means something else... into a culture where words often mean something else but where we need reliablitly for things to mean exactly as they should we get an obfiscating of the truth... with a Truth that comes in anyway!!!... i mean if the death alone is all that counts then surely any death could be used that way?... but a life is a life means a life!  and that is solid ground to build a relationship with GOD on and that life is your own my own with everything GOD has to offer His Life the one He Made.... and all we have to do is to yield! to the you Shalls of His Love... and should we really be worrying about the yesyes's and ohno's of fame and fortune? and all the anxiety or guilt  about corruptibility and hypocracy... hey i love that Jesus leaves the disciples and suddenly the Storm of the Holy Spirit comes unexpectedly in unexpected ways... and Lord i love that UNACCEPTABILITY of YOUR LOVE THAT NUDGES US TOWARDS THE youSHALLS of Your Spirit and Your ACTIVITY and say yes yes bring it on and BE MORE in the NAME of JESUS!.. as we look at what was and fumble with what isn't let us be in the AMAZING adventure of WHAT IT IS YOUR PLEASURE TO BRING IN THE NAME OF JESUS HEAVEN TO EARTH!

researching i find... 1 Corinthians 15
36 You foolish man! Every time you plant seed, you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up, and growing] unless it dies first.

37 Nor is the seed you sow then the body which it is going to have [later], but it is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or some of the rest of the grains.

38 But God gives to it the body that He plans and sees fit, and to each kind of seed a body of its own.
39 For all flesh is not the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fish.

40 There are heavenly bodies (sun, moon, and stars) and there are earthly bodies (men, animals, and plants), but the beauty and glory of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, while the beauty and glory of earthly bodies is a different kind.

41 The sun is glorious in one way, the moon is glorious in another way, and the stars are glorious in their own [distinctive] way; for one star differs from and surpasses another in its beauty and brilliance.


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,