Seeds of Hope

Ken Wytsma has inspired this blog with the following excerpt from his book Pursuing Justice: A Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things.

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:24 (NIV)

When we die to ourselves – when we give our lives away – God takes our lives and uses them to bring new life and restore creation and goodness. We are told what is required of us – to act justly; to love mercy and to walk humbly with God.  We are called, in the words of Wendell Berry, to practice resurrection.

In a broken world full of inequity and injustice – from human trafficking to racism to gender violence, and from gossip to consumerism to petty anger – can we really expect to find true life and happiness in obeying Him as we seek to give our lives away for others?

I think we can!  I think we must!