Selfless Life

Selfless Life.

John 12:24

 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.

 

The rule of the natural man is Get all you can.

The rule of the spiritual man should be Give all you can.

In the spiritual realm, one must give away to keep things forever.

In the Christian life, we must be reduced to nothing before we become something.

A boy visited his home after being away for 35 years. As he walked up to his deserted cabin, he remembered that as a youngster he had planted some walnuts along a stream that ran through the farm. When he went down to the creek, he discovered a beautiful row of majestic walnut trees.

Then he recalled that he had also hidden some nuts in the attic. He was curious to see what had happened to them, so he climbed into the dark attic and poked around in a corner until he found them. What a difference! Those he had stored were nothing but dry and dust-covered nuts, while the ones he had planted had become flourishing green trees.

Seed kept in the granary will mold and decay, but “planted rightly” into the ground it increases 30, 60, and 100-fold.

Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies. It remains alone.

Jesus compared His life to a seed, which must die in order to live and bear fruit.

As believers in Christ, we shrink from the thought of dying to self. Yet in the natural, we easily accept that a seed must pass through death to produce new life in the spring season. We know that seeds germinate under the ground’s surface, though we don’t see it happening.

In today’s circumstances, if we die to self and let the Spirit control our sinful desires, we can be confident that spiritual fruit will germinate within us, even though we can’t see it yet.

We can rejoice over every seed of self that dies, for it’s a sign of the coming of spring to our lives.

We must be reminded that Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain” Jn 12:24

Jesus had His own death in mind when He spoke those words. But they apply to believers as well. If we refuse to “die” to our own selfish desires, we “remain alone.”

In Christ’s death on the cross for man’s sin and in the Christian’s death to his own sin, the same principle applies: In dying there is living!

Until a seed is planted, it cannot multiply. And we won't see the Spirit's Fruit Until to self we die.

We die if we live for self.

We live if we die to self.

Fruitfulness for Christ begins when we die to self.

 

As you start this month, Take a few minutes of time to list out those which you must Die and those you must plant.

Let us pray:

Lord, shape my life which only You can do, guide me each day with your loving plan. Help me to live a selfless life. My life is yours. Fill me and use me. In Jesus Name. Amen

 

God Bless you. Have a Selfless Month.