The Grain of Wheat

‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone but if it dies it produces much grain. John 12:24NKJV. When Jesus made this statement he was letting his disciples know that the time for his death had come, and that his death would lead to another chapter, his glorification which will reproduce many others like himself. Jesus did not live a selfish life because he did not refuse to go to the cross but he lived a sacrificial life by going to the cross so that he could achieve his eternal purpose. Jesus bore the cross and died because of you and I and through his death we have been redeemed by his blood. It is by this blood that we now have access to the Father, Jesus rose up on the third day and is alive forever more.

When we die to our own will we die with Jesus and resurrect with Jesus Christ a new life that is fully controlled by the Holy Spirit. We become new creatures and only then do we truly became who God has called us to be and that way our lives will bear fruit. John15:4-5 ‘Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me’   Matthew 7:19 ‘So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into fire’NLT. Galatians 2:20 ‘My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.’ When we die with Christ we are no longer bothered with the cares of this world but about how to go about our fathers business, looking unto him alone, trusting him completely and surrendering our will to him this way we then begin to truly live because we cannot truly live until we die.

John 12:25 ‘Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity” NLT. If you try to save your life you will eventually lose it but if you give up your life in this world you will save it. I once read about a woman who kept her son away from God but eventually lost the child, anything that we try to save by keeping away from Gods original plan we will lose eventually. Whenever we decide not to show others love because we are afraid of being rejected we are trying to save ourselves the heartache, if we are scared to commit our lives totally to God because we are afraid God will ask us to give away our car or ask us to do things we do not want to do then we are trying to save ourselves from any type of discomfort. Whenever we try to save our reputations, our relationships, or our material possessions to the detriment of our complete obedience to God the bible says we will lose it.

When Jesus Christ begins to live in us, our old self is dead , our will is dead we now live entirely for him , he tells us what to do and we do it, we no longer do what we feel like doing  or what we wish to  do . Christ is the one living in us because we died with Christ. I once watched a Telemundo series about this rich man who died but he was reincarnated in a younger man’s body so people could see the young man physically but it was the old man in the young man’s body talking and doing everything in the young man’s body. The young man was dead but the old man was the one living inside of him. This is what happens to us when we die, Jesus Christ takes the wheel of our lives but unlike the dead young man who didn’t have a choice, we have a choice to either allow Jesus to take absolute control of our lives or not to, he doesn’t force us he gives us a freewill to choose. Its only when we choose death to self that we truly begin to live Gods intended life for us.