Let The Seeds Fall

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

^{God just led me to this passage in the Bible. I love when He takes you somewhere and you get something from it straight away. I don't know much about farming, and I don't know much about growing wheat, but I do know about Jesus, about sharing His love and how we come to be saved.} 

^{In this passage I feel like God is just reminding me that in order to see more people saved I need to die to myself. Just as the wheat does. When it dies and falls to the ground, more wheat can then be grown. If we didn't want to grow any more wheat we would take the kernals before they were to die so no more can grow. But if we do this, that kernal is not going to last long. If we let it die and fall and produce more then we are able to harvest more. As I said, I don't really know much about wheat or farming so I'm not sure that I can make much sense of it.}

^{By itself, a grain of wheat remains simply just one grain, but when it drops into the earth, nature multiplies that grain. Out of death comes life. By allowing ourselves to die to self, we create opportunities for further life for others. A harvest starts with a grain. Without that grain, we cannot produce anything.} 

^{Do you produce grain in your own life... or do you chop it down? Do you think of yourself and put yourself first, not allowing yourself to die to the things of the earth so that you may save others?} 

^{Thankful for: Tissues}

^{I woke up today feeling quite unwell. My nose has not stopped running all day so I am thankful that I have tissues. Without them, I would feel quite unclean and gross. And if I used toilet paper or something else not as soft as tissues, my nose would feel a lot sorer than it is.}