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Seed

If you really want to understand how grace operates in relation to stewarding your life’s resources, you must think agriculturally. You must think like a farmer. Second Corinthians 9:10 sets this up for us, “Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.”

Within this verse lies the quintessential understanding of how to access grace. Grace is built into the seed itself. When the farmer plants a seed of corn, a stalk forms and grows to bear ears of corn itself later on. All of this came from the seed.

In the new corn that has grown are new seeds for more corn. In this way, using the seed enables the farmer to gain access to even more seeds. The way this translates into our understanding of accessing God’s grace is that God has placed within grace the seed of grace itself. It’s built in. Since grace is built into the seed, the way you gain access to greater grace is through the sowing of a seed of grace.

When you plant a pear seed, you get a pear tree. When you plant an apple seed, you get an apple tree. You will never plant a watermelon seed and grow squash. This is true simply because God established replication to occur after each seed’s own kind. Whatever it is that you plant is what you will get back.