The death dealers

John 12:23-25
23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who
hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

So I had a conversation with a new friend, Pastor Nick Lembo, and he was telling me about how he as been increasingly aware of the cycle of death. Now, before you go off thinking he is really old, he's in his prime! (that's for you pastor Nick, hope it edifies you.) Well I was thinking and pondering what he shared with me and it kind of got "Stuck in my craw."

I went back to a verse God reminded me of in John (see above) where Jesus says, "Its time," then says "unless the wheat falls to to the ground and DIES, it remains only a single seed" then he finishes by saying "whoever hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life." These three thought are SO different, but SO connected.

Firstly, look at the time aspect. God created time. While HE is not bound to it, WE are. God does work within the scope of TIME to accomplish His work on earth. But the thing with God's time is just that, it's GOD'S time. God will do what God WANTS to do, WHEN God WANTS to do it, just because HE CAN! Later on, Jesus says, "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority." (Acts 1:7). In the context of scripture, Jesus was asked when this dream would be fulfilled! When, Jesus, is this vision of the messiah, the thought we have, and vision we have been working towards, gonna be real?

To which Jesus says (paraphrased), "Dude, unless the wheat seed falls on the ground and bites it, its only a single seed, but if it dies, it gives birth to something else too!"

For so long, this has not made sense to me, but when it comes down to it, God was sharing, we have to LET GO of our little tiny one wheat seed vision, and let it die, so that He can make it a legacy. Legacy's last and last. People remember them, but who really remembers a single solitary vision?

We have to let our dreams, visions, and hopes, God given or not, die. We have to deal with death, the death of our own dreams so that GOD can put a legacy into us. That legacy is nothing less than kingdom impacting!

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