11/15/2025
“And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting. Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed. […] It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.”
1 Corinthians 15:37-43 NLT
Wheat seeds are dry, small, and seemingly insignificant. When you plant a seed, you bury it, cover it in dirt, and may even forget about it. Yet, under the soil, it begins to bud. Life breaks through. And what comes out is not a seed; but rather a beautiful golden stalk of wheat, a new version of the seed.
This reflects the gospel of our bodies. Our bodies are perishable, weak, burdened by life, scarred by sin, slowed by age. Our bodies are sown in weakness, in the hospital beds and in graves. Under the soil, covered in darkness. But God doesn’t stop here. God transforms the seed into a beautiful golden stalk, just as he transforms our earthly bodies into a new heavenly body. One that doesn’t perish, one that can worship without fail, one that radiates everlasting life, power, and reflects his glory.
Today, let every limitation preach hope. The limp that slows you, the grief that buries joy, the mirror that shows decay, know that none of it is the final word. You are being unsown, that you may be resown in splendor. Let us trust God in our weakness, knowing that he will renew us and bring us into everlasting life.
