GOD PLANTED ETERNITY IN EVERY HUMAN HEART. WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR THAT SEED TO SPROUT AND PRODUCE ETERNAL FRUIT IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES? JOIN ME AS I JOURNEY BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF CREATION AND UNEARTH THIS SEED IN MY LIFE AND HOPEFULLY YOURS ALSO.

YET GOD HAS MADE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL FOR ITS OWN TIME.  HE HAS PLATED ETERNITY IN THE HUMAN HEART, BUT EVEN SO, PEOPLE CANNOT SEE THE WHOLE SCOPE OF GOD’S WORK FROM BEGINNING TO END.    ECCLESIASTES 3:11 NLT

FOR YOU CREATED MY INMOST BEING:  YOU KNIT ME TOGETHER IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB.   PSALM 139:18 NIV

“LISTEN!  A FARMER WENT OUT TO SOW HIS SEED.  AS HE WAS SCATTERING THE SEED, SOME FELL ALONG THE PATH, AND THE BIRDS CAME AND ATE IT UP.  SOME FELL ON ROCKY PLACES, WHERE IT DID NOT HAVE MUCH SOIL.  IT SPRANG UP QUICKLY, BECAUSE THE SOIL WAS SHALLOW.  BUT WHEN THE SUN CAME UP, THE PLANTS WERE SCORCHED, AND THEY WITHERED BECAUSE THEY HAD NO ROOT.  OTHER SEED FELL AMONG THORNS WHICH GREW UP AND CHOKED THE PLANTS, SO THAT THEY DID NOT BEAR GRAIN.  STILL OTHER SEED FELL ON GOOD SOIL.  IT CAME UP GREW AND PRODUCED A CROP, SOME MULTIPLYING THIRTY, SOME SIXTY, SOME A HUNDRED TIMES.  THEN JESUS SAID, “WHOEVER HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET THEM HEAR.”  WHEN HE WAS ALONE, THE TWELVE AND THE OTHERS AROUND HIM ASKED HIM ABOUT THE PARABLES.  HE TOLD THEM, “THE SECRET OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU.  BUT TO THOSE ON THE OUTSIDE EVERYTHING IS SAID IN PARABLES SO THAT, “‘THEY MAY BE EVER SEEING BUT NEVER PERCEIVING, AND EVER HEARING BUT NEVER UNDERSTANDING; OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT TURN AND BE FORGIVEN!'”  THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, “DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THIS PARABLE?  HOW THEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND ANY PARABLE?  THE FARMER SOWS THE WORD.  SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SEED ALONG THE PATH, WHERE THE WORD IS SOWN.  AS SOON AS THEY HEAR IT, SATAN COMES AND TAKES AWAY THE WORD THAT WAS SOWN IN THEM.  OTHERS, LIKE SEED SOWN ON ROCKY PLACES, HEAR THE WORD AND AT ONCE RECEIVE IT WITH JOY.  BUT SINCE THEY HAVE NO ROOT, THEY LAST ONLY A SHORT TIME.  WHEN TROUBLE OR PERSECUTION COME BECAUSE OF THE WORD THEY QUICKLY FALL AWAY.  STILL OTHERS, LIKE SEED SOWN AMONG THORNS HEAR THE WORD; BUT THE WORRIES OF THIS LIFE, THE DECEITFULNESS OF WEALTH AND THE DESIRE FOR OTHER THINGS COME IN AND CHOKE THE WORD, MAKING IT UNFRUITFUL.  OTHERS, LIKE SEED SOWN ON GOOD SOIL HEAR THE WORD, ACCEPT IT, AND PRODUCE A CROP-SOME THIRTY, SOME SIXTY, AND SOME A HUNDRED TIMES WHAT WAS SOWN.”  MARK4:1-20

THE PLANTING

GABRIEL LOVED WATCHING THE CREATOR KNIT ANOTHER BABY BLANKET.  THE YARN USED FOR EACH WAS SO UNIQUE AND SPUN DIRECTLY FROM ELEMENTS FOUND ONLY IN HEAVEN.  CREATOR TOOK  SPECIAL CARE TO KNIT EACH BABY UNIQUE.  THIS CHILD WAS GOING TO HAVE GOLD HAIR, HAZEL EYES, AND PALE SKIN.  GABRIEL HELD HIS BREATH AS HE WATCHED HIS FAVORITE PART.  IT WAS THE PLANTING OF THE ETERNITY SEED.  CREATOR TOOK THE CRIMSON BLOOD OF HIS SON OFF CALVARY’S TREE AND SPUN IT WITH THE GOLD TAKEN FROM THE PAVEMENT OF HEAVEN.  HE THEN ADDED A FEW DROPS OF THE CRYSTAL SEA INTO THE MIX AND WOVE THE THREAD INTO KELLYE’S HEART.

THE ETERNITY SEED WAS ROOTED IN EVERY HUMAN HEART.  WHETHER OR NOT THE SEED SPROUTED AND PRODUCED WAS UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL.  THE CONDITION OF THE HEART WAS THE DETERMINING FACTOR.  GABRIEL DID NOT HAVE FORESIGHT LIKE CREATOR DID.  ONLY GOD KNEW THE SOIL CONDITION KELLYE WOULD ALLOW OF HER HEART.  ONLY HE FORESAW THE PATH SHE WOULD TAKE IN HER LIFE.  GABRIEL SEARCHED FOR ANY CLUE ON THE CREATOR’S FACE AS TO THE FRUIT OF THIS CHILD’S ETERNITY SEED.  THE FATHER JUST KEPT SMILING AND WEAVING TAKING SUCH JOY, AS HE ALWAYS DID, WHEN HE KNIT ANOTHER CHILD INTO A MOTHER’S WOMB.

THE CHILD WAS BORN AND GREW.  SHE WAS TAUGHT THE WORD OF GOD.  CREATOR HAD PICKED GOOD PARENTS FOR HER.  THE PARENTS KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN GOD’S WORD.  KELLYE LEARNED ABOUT THE GREAT HEROES OF OUR FAITH SITTING IN SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT.  LITTLE DID SHE KNOW THAT THOSE BIBLE HEROE’S STORIES, THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF THOSE STORIES, WOULD ONE DAY BECOME PART OF HER OWN STORY.

WHAT ABOUT THE CONDITION OF HER HEART?  WHAT TYPE OF SOIL DID THE SEED OF THE WORD FALL ON?  WAS IT LIKE THE SEED SOWN ALONG THE PATH; AS SOON AS SHE HEARD IT, SATAN CAME AND TOOK AWAY THE WORD THAT WAS SOWN IN HER?  CERTAIN SEASONS IN HER LIFE, SHE DID ALLOW GOD’S WORD TO GET STOLEN FROM HER THOUGHTS.  DID THE SEED FALL INTO ROCKY PLACES AND IT COULDN’T TAKE ROOT?  DID TROUBLE COME ALONG AND MAKE THE SEED FALL AWAY?  GOD DID ALLOW TROUBLE TO COME AND SHAKE HER FAITH FOUNDATION.  KELLYE DID HAVE SEASONS OF NOT TENDING HER SOIL AND ALLOWING THORNS TO SPRING UP AND THE WORRIES OF THIS LIFE, AND THE DESIRE FOR OTHER THINGS COME IN AND CHOKE OUT THE WORD OF GOD.  SHE DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO TEND HER GARDEN.  SHE PULLED EACH THORN BUSH.  SHE GOT OUT THE HOE AND DUG EACH WEED.  WHILE SHE WAS DIGGING SHE UNEARTHED A SEED NOT CREATED FROM THIS WORLD.  THERE WAS NO WORD TO DESCRIBE ITS COLOR.  SHE COULDN’T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT WOULD FLOWER FROM THIS SEED.  IT’S HUE WAS CRIMSON, GOLD, AND AMETHYST ALL SWIRLED INTO ONE.

GABRIEL SMILED AS HE WATCHED THE JOY SPREAD OVER CREATOR’S FACE.  “SHE HAS UNEARTHED THE ETERNITY SEED!”  THE FATHER TWIRLED HIS SON AROUND.  THE MASTER GARDENER THEN WATERED THE ETERNITY SEED WITH HIS SPIRIT.  ONLY THE SEED PLANTER KNOWS HOW MUCH CROP THIS SEED WILL PRODUCE.

YOU ONLY HAVE TO SUBSTITUTE YOUR NAME, YOUR HAIR, AND YOUR EYE COLOR INTO THIS STORY.  YOU TOO HAVE THE ETERNITY SEED PLANTED IN YOUR HEART.  WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF YOUR SOIL?