So my good friends, what’s the difference between a seed and a tree? Wow, ain’t this one of the simplest questions? Easy.. No. Maybe biologically, chemically or in such and such a way, there is no difference. But let’s get out of that dimension of Biology and get into the analogy world. What’s the difference? Well here in this zone the differences are vast, in fact contradictory.
One cool day in the deep of the forest, God in His supreme design removed from his pouch a seed. He showed the seed around to his angels and told them “behold, this is how all this began”. Then he turned to the seed and told it, "look around little one, that’s how you will be in times to come. Majestic, mighty, blossoming and provide life the world around you. You will be the mighty oak that maps will be based on as they tell direction." And with that, the purpose/ function and mission of the tree is breathed into it. pooof!
The only way we can tell how mighty the seed will be is not by looking at the seed, but knowing its original intention. Whether we have seen an OAK or not will not prevent or stop it from being an OAK, if it was programmed to be one, then there is no stopping it. Its beneath the skin, deep inside it. Giant slayers are born by men not giants.
Then the angels asked God; "So master, where shall you place this seed. Where to reflect it’s soon to be might. Where shall it stand on that the world may see and behold of the coming giant?" then behold God is His supreme design plays a surprising number on them;
"I will place it underground. Away from the light, away from the stares, away from the glamour, away from the sun, deep in the belly of the earth, in the dirt and life will go on as normal on top of it." So the poor seed is cast away from its 'glory to be' and is flung into the earth, where it’s swallowed whole and in size. With no sign on top with no mark to say “this space right here, the giant lies”.
But why?
God in His Supreme design saw that the poor seed needed to be blinded from the glamour to be. In order to be the big OAK, it needed to first of all grow in places that were more important. Not the mighty bark we see, but the unseen roots. Not the beautiful green tender leaves that fall in season, but the dirty under belly that holds the mighty OAK fast on its ground and never weathered out. But first, the most important growth was to happen hidden from the forest around it. It needed to feed itself in the silence of the dirt. Without the pressure of the peers and the stares of the birds. the only way the seed could configure to its purpose was in the silence.
Once we have a hold of our purpose, once we mature our original intention, there is no stopping us. We are hence driven not by Dreams but by Purpose. Dreams shift, purposes are static. Dreams are based on our surrounding; Purpose is based on our original Intention. Dreams are important to color a part of a purpose, but they are always overtaken by another dream as we charge forth to your purpose. Martin Luther had a dream; that was build on his purpose. His dream was in making long before he had it, in the seed bed, in the corridors of his youth, in the quiet times as we discovered himself. There was all his dreams born.
The reason we don’t achieve our purpose and pursue our dreams is because we don’t want to start like the seed. We want to start from the top up. The seed has to give up to learn and know its original configuration by blinding to the world. Once it takes root, the rest is auto pilot.
Plant your seed on top of the ground, admiring other trees and when the winds of time, the waters of the season or the birds of prey come, you get plucked away and forgotten.
It is the ability to die of the pressures of the world and subject to knowing your purpose that will build the mighty tree. Some take 2 years underground, others 10, others less, but that’s the rhythm of life and the pattern.
Your purpose is in your DNA. Your ability to block all the noise around you and in the moment, do continually what you are supposed to be doing in your circumstances are what will enable you to find your purpose. Your purpose is not driven by glory or might, but by what gives you life. the rest will follow.
Celebrate now that you the seed are underground, cultivate around yourself all the nutrients that you need and know little seed that how long you stand upright as a mighty tree is dependent on how well you form as a little seed in the ground.
Its Yours, if your it
