John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
Until now, we've all had a partial Truth concerning Jesus, but God has opened our understanding to the full Truth, in these last days. We can only walk in the Light of the Truth that we have and until the Light is shone into God's Word, it's only been education, instead of Revelation. If you've been born-again for a long period of time, then you know that Revelation is progressive. If we don't progress or grow in what we have or "have eyes, but don't see," then Revelation is lost.
Mark 4:11-12 (Amplified) tells us, "And [Jesus] said to them, To you has been entrusted the Mystery of the Kingdom of God, that is the secret counsels of God; which are hidden from the ungodly; but for those outside of our circle everything becomes a Parable. In order that they may indeed look and look but not see and perceive, and may hear and hear but not grasp and comprehend, lest haply they should turn again, and it their willful rejection of the Truth should be forgiven them."
As believers, we are in the circle and have been given access into the Mystery of the Kingdom of God, unless we willfully reject Truth. Even born-again children of God, then, can willfully reject the Light of Truth, in our lives. We can only walk in what we have light to see and we can choose "not to see." Jesus said that, "They have eyes but don't see," speaking bout their not seeing the Light of the World. Jesus was the Light of the world and they didn't receive Him or see Him as such.
When God sows an acorn seed, He doesn't only see the acorn, but He sees the Oak tree that will grow from that acorn. God sees the harvest, not just the seed. Our seeing has been hindered by the world and its teachings, so we only see what is right before us. God sees past the natural seeing and sees the fullness of the seed. We only see God's Word as it is written, without understanding that IT IS SEED. Jesus referred to Himself as, "Seed," in John 12:24 (Amplified) where He told His followers, "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just one grain (it never becomes more but lives by itself alone), But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest."
Through the One Seed, Jesus, God has yielded a harvest of millions of sons and daughters. God saw beyond the One Seed and sowed and continues to reap a great harvest unto Himself. God doesn't just see the acorn, but sees the mighty Oak. We've become nearsighted, when it comes to God's Word. We only see the scripture or the seed and fail to sow it into hearts. We only see the seed, and we don't see the results. We see "By His stripes we are healed," but we fail to see the yield of healing and a healthy body, in our lives. We have eyes, but don't see.
The Mystery of the Kingdom of God, is seeing the harvest and not just the seed. Hebrews 12:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses who have borne testimony to the Truth, let us strip off and throw away every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly) and cleverly clings t and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us. Looking away from all that will distract, To Jesus Who is the Source of our faith, giving the first incentive for our belief, and is also it's Finisher, bringing it to maturity and perfection. He, for the joy of obtaining the prize that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame and is now seated at the right hand of the Throne of God."
Jesus understood the Mystery of the Kingdom of God and the secret counsels of God, didn't simply see Himself as the Seed, but looked beyond the cross. He gave of Himself, like the grain and kernels die, in order to produce a harvest that is greater. Jesus saw the harvest of what He Himself was the Seed for and reaped a harvest for God's family. We're to do the same, with the seed of God's Word. We're to remain patient in it's Truth, trusting the seed to produce the harvest of it's kind. We must not only see the acorn, but the Oak tree.
We can all probably quote John 3:16, which tells us that, "God so loved the world that He gave His Only Son, that whosoever should believe will be saved." God sowed Himself, as the Seed Jesus, into the earth, because He saw the fruit of that Seed, which was the harvest of His family. All words are seeds, including the words of the enemy and his worldly kingdom of darkness. This is why Jesus admonished in Mark 4:24 (Amplified), "Be careful what you are hearing."
Even though the Seed of God's Word has been before us for centuries, we've failed to see what that Seed will produce, because we've never allowed it to be sown into the soil of our spirits. It's remained only in seed form and not in the harvest. We keep seeing the acorn and not the Oak. When you plant a garden, you stop seeing only the seed and begin making provision for the fruit of that seed. We must do the same with God's Word, in our lives.
After planting tomato seeds in your home garden, you place wire cages near the placed that seed. These cages will support the plant, when the fruit (tomatoes) appears. You do this, because you looked beyond the seed itself and saw the tomatoes that it will produce. We must do this with God's Word and look beyond the see, to see the joy set before. This is so simply and many will say, "There's got to be more to it," but you did apply faith to the truth that the tomato seed you planted, will produce more tomatoes. Your faith didn't make the seed produce. God made that seed to produce. Your faith made you patience to endure, until the harvest was wipe. The seed grew by itself. You just kept the weeds from choking out the plant.
The Seed of God's Word is "incorruptible Seed." Our job is to be careful what we hear and not allow such seeds of the enemy as doubt, unbelief, worry, anxiety and other seeds to be sown in our spirits. Paul instructs us in Hebrews 12:1 (Amplified) to weed out the seeds of the world that "readily (deftly, cleverly clings to and entangles us and weighs us down, to be weeded out." We must be careful what we hear and be careful what seeds we allow to be sown into our hearts.
Seeds, of course, need light, in order to grow. God is the Light and we must spend time in His Presence, in order for His Word to produce what it Promises, in our lives. In Isaiah 55:11 (Amplified) God says, "So shall My Word be that goes forth out of My mouth, it shall not return to Me void."
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