Resurrection Isn't Possible Without Death

1 Corinthians 15:36 says, “... when you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it dies first.” John 12:24 says, “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But it’s death will produce many kernels… a plentiful harvest of new lives.”

And the truth really is that a kernel of wheat yields no increase unless it’s cast into the ground. So death is necessary to the perpetuation of life. Perpetuation involves development. Development is not automatic but rather the consequence of a creative act of God.

There are things in our lives that we must be willing to have die in order to grow, flourish, bloom, and multiply. Resurrection isn’t possible without death. Death to selfishness, death to sluggishness, death to stubbornness. It’s what I’m learning daily. Plant (die) >> Grow >> Bloom.

But...

Development demands death.
Death is the most unlikeliest road to life, “lose your life, find your life”, but... dissolution is necessary for reproduction.

Resurrection isn’t possible without death!
“... when you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it DIES first.”
No increase unless its cast into the ground.

And so maybe I came to die?

Because each and every one of us must choose to die every single day. We must determine those things that have held us back for far too long now… And we must decide what is in need of dying off in order to make us alive! Alive in Him!