Words Are Indeed A Living Seed, With A Power Of Germinating And Springing Up, Asserting Their Own Vitality
SCRIPTURE: \’It is the Spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I
have spoken unto you are Spirit and are life-Jn. 6:63
Our Lord applies this saying now specially to the words He had just spoken, and the Spiritual
truth they contained. \’ The words that I have spoken unto you are Spirit and are Life.\’ He
wishes to teach the disciples two things. The one is, that the words are indeed a living seed,
with a power of germinating and springing up, asserting their own vitality, revealing their
meaning, and proving their Divine Power in those who receive them and keep them abiding
in the heart. He wanted them not to be discouraged if they could not at once comprehend
them. His words are Spirit and Life; they are not meant for the understanding, but for the
Life. Coming in the Power of the Unseen Spirit, higher and deeper than all thought, they
enter into the very roots of the Life, they have themselves a Divine Life, working out
effectually with a Divine energy the Truth they express into the experience of those who
receive them. As a consequence of this their spiritual character–this is the other lesson He
wished His disciples to learn–these words of His need a spiritual nature to receive them. Seed
needs a congenial soil: there must be life in the soil as well as in the seed. Not into the
mind only, nor into the feelings, nor ever, the will alone must the word be taken, but through
them into the life. The centre of that life is man\’s spiritual nature, with conscience as its
voice; there the authority of the word must be acknowledged. But even this is not enough:
conscience dwells in man as a captive amid powers it cannot control. It is the Spirit that
comes from God, the Spirit that Christ came to bring, becoming our life, receiving the word,
and assimilating it to our life, that will make them to become the Truth and Power in us.
PRAYER : The Sower sows the living word. Pray for the hundred fold return in your life
and others that hear the word from you.