Wednesday in the Word: Bearing Precious Seed
I posted this today at KJV Blog Directory . . . It's almost spring! This winter has been long and cold, and I am very ready for spring this year. At this time of year, many of us begin planning gardens and ordering seeds. I'm not one of those people (my thumb is quite brown), but many of you probably are! Several years ago, I was involved in a gift exchange in which I was to prepare a small gift for each of 14 days, and the recipient would open one gift each day. The first day's gift was a packet of seeds, and this is the word study on seeds that I included with the gift. I thought it was interesting that “seed” in the Bible most often refers to human offspring. So, this verse could possibly have an application to our families – weeping over them, training them, and we shall doubtless rejoice with them, bringing them to Heaven with us. But the application I’ve always thought of and heard preached is that of bearing the Word (precious seed) to those who ar