Johnny Appleseed was a real person born in 1774. His real name was John Chapman. His passion, which he did, was to go around far and wide planting apple seeds which would in turn produce apple trees, which would in turn produce apples so that no one would ever go hungry.
Just think about the amazing potential and power of a seed. After God's creation, every living thing on this planet came from a seed. In fact, did you know that words are seeds? And since God spoke this world into existence with words, I guess you could say He spoke this world into existence with seeds. Umm...In the book of Genesis we read The phrase, "seedtime and harvest". In this context seedtime is a particular event. However, you could say it another way: seed - time - harvest. By this we see that it takes time for for the potential in a seed to germinate and develop into it's full statue. Also, I might add, it's important to note that the treatment of the seed during it's growing process greatly influences the health of it's final being. After a farmer plants his seeds he waters and nourishes them throughout the growing phase to help ensure a good crop. Otherwise he could have a crop failure.This same analogy can be used for humans. We produce other humans with our seed. As the seed begins it's growing process in the womb, the soon to be mother takes care of herself to ensure a healthy baby. Once the baby is born and throughout the process of growing into adolescence and then into adulthood, our words and words spoken by others function as seeds that will grow to shape the character, self-worth, confidence and integrity of the child. Negative degrading words (seeds) will produce that kind of result. Positive uplifting encouraging words (seeds) produce that kind of result.
The type of ground in which the seed is planted is vital. Jesus said, "seed planted in good ground Will produce 30,60 and 100 fold". He also said good trees produce good fruit and bad trees produce bad fruit. It's important to understand that our mind is the soil in which we plant seeds. What we listen to, watch, talk about and think about the most act as seeds that directly impacts our outlook on life. Therefore, it's easy to see that if our mind is full of doom and gloom and negativity seeds, That's the kind of prop that will be produced this shaping our character. On the other hand, if we feed positive thinking and faith filled words and the word of God, Our mind set will be a glorious crop.
So, you see, Johnny Appleseed was motivated by a great passion which led him to plant apple seeds everywhere he went. We, too, can be like Johnny and go around planting seeds of the Gospel. The result of our seed will be the "bread of life" that will feed those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Do you have a passion for those who are lost, for those who are hurting?
John
Problem -- What Problem
The lion roared
And David took him out,
God's anointing was on him strong,
Goliath bellowed
And David took him out,
As God directed the Stone,
The wind blew hard,
And the waves crashed in,
His disciples were full of dread,
But Jesus was with them,
And calmed the storm,
Where is your faith, He said;
The crowd was huge,
They had been there a while,
And now they were a hungry bunch,
But the multitude was fed,
As Jesus looked up to heaven,
And blessed a little boy's lunch,
Peter was chained
Between two guards
Scheduled to die the next day.
But God sent his angels
Who silenced the guards
And led Peter quietly away.
Paul and Silas were beaten,
And chained to prison walls,
They were in a terrible plight,
But they sang praises to God,
And He shook the chains off,
And they were freed in the middle of the night.
So how big is your problem?
Has it got you down,
And you don't know where to turn,
Have you forgotten Almighty God,
He's bigger than them all,
And will relieve your every concern.
John,sf
04/22/17
