It Has to Die

John 12:24
24 I tell you the truth, 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.

We don't like to think about this and sometimes it hurts. Things have to die. How else can God create something new? We've even heard the saying, "Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die." Well our old bodies have to die in order for our spirit's to take on a more glorious form....hmmm. In the Fall season, leaves change color, die and fall off the trees. The leaves have to die but in the Spring, new life brings new green leaves. With the fall season, there is death. But with Spring there is life. Everything in life starts with a seed. Fruits, vegetables and even us. We are seeds. We affect the things around us. But sometimes it's in death, that we see just how much new life has been created. We sometimes attempt to hang on to things for selfish or blind reasons but when God says it has to die, let it die. What seeds in your life need to die in order that God may fertilize the soil to produce new life? It has to die. So let it.