God can make us live productively on any part of the earth. Just as God has made our world fruitful, we can also live prolific lives wherever we find ourselves. We can flourish anywhere He plants us — at home, school, office or church. Whether we live in a so-called developed or underdeveloped country, God can make our lives fruitful. He has blessed every nation on this globe with enough resources to live constructively. No matter how impoverished a country is, God has endowed its land, water bodies and air space to be fruitful. However, pursuing the Lord doesn’t imply abandoning plans and dreams; it simply means we prayerfully subject our hopes to His will. As we strive to know God, our desire changes to reflect His. Our Father in Heaven takes responsibility for our lives and puts our goals that He has promised in His Word when we set our hearts right with Him. How does a believer seek the God Who will supply their needs? He does that by studying His Word and asking for His revelation. Every Christian who genuinely wants to be trained in the Father’s ways can expect His instructions. The more we seek to learn about Him, the more we want to know. The more we know, the more faith we have to claim His promises.
“And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruits, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good” (Gen 1:12). God created the first fruit trees for us. The Lord placed seeds within each fruit that hung on a fruit tree. He did that to signal that He would not continue creating trees for us after He had created the first ones. The power to continue producing new fruits lies within the seeds in the fruit. The significant thing to note about the seed is that it is within. The first trees were on the earth. The seeds to produce the next set of fruits are laid within the fruits. In both instances, God placed the power of fruitfulness within. He has so designed lives on earth that what we need to do is not far from us. In this case, what we need is within us. A seed is a unit of reproduction capable of reproducing another plant. However, we also use “seed” as a metaphor beyond agriculture. We use it to describe the potential that lies with each of us. This potential is what we activate to make our lives industrious. In that sense, we can say that God has placed a seed within each one of us that, when discovered and used, will make our lives flourish. The source of our fruitfulness lies with us. The seed stands for the source, and it is the place from which you begin.
Everything on earth has a beginning as a fertilized egg. Products and inventions have their origins in an idea, and each of these is a seed. The seed stands for our undeveloped capacity. Fruit is what you can become but are not now. It is “what will be which is not now.” There is something God wants you to be, which you are yet to become. That is your undeveloped capacity. Whether you are to be a great doctor, engineer, programmer or pastor, God has given you the aptitude for it. He has already placed the seed inside you —in your spirit, thoughts, temperament and talents.
