The Transformational Power of Scriptureনমুনা

The Word is a seed

As the pandemic was shutting down the planet, God planted a tiny seed in the heart of a Mexican man.

In the summer of 2020, I told Ricardo, one of my soccer teammates, about a Bible app that people at my church loved. He seemed interested at the time, but I wasn’t sure if he was simply being kind or if he truly intended to download it on his device.

A year later I found out. “Mike, I’m almost done reading the Bible on that app you told me about,” Ricardo mentioned as we warmed up before our game.

“What? The whole Bible?!” I replied.

Grabbing his phone, he clicked open the app and showed me his “Bible in a Year” plan. He was over 300 days in, putting him in the homestretch of his first-ever time reading the Scriptures. Even better than what I saw on his screen was what he told me about his soul, how the Word had been changing him, especially in his attitude at home and the way he handled stress at work. I can’t remember if we won our soccer game that night or not, but I do know that I drove home with a fresh reminder that the littlest moments can turn into the biggest blessings in the kingdom of God.

Because God’s Word is like a seed. When we read the Bible, hear the Bible, sing the Bible, pray the Bible, text the Bible, share the Bible, or discuss the Bible, God is scattering seeds in our hearts. These seeds are potential-packed truths that grow, often invisibly at first, into some of our biggest blessings.

Jesus, in the parable that takes up the most space in Scripture, taught, “But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown” (Matthew 13:23).

Downloading an app or opening an old Bible might seem like a small habit to some, but to those who have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, the Bible is electric in its potential. Today you might check another box of another devotion or get back on the Bible-reading wagon after falling off during a busy season, but these are enormously important in the way that God works.

Your devotional life might seem small. Seeds are too.

But they don’t stay that way.