GOD PLANTED A SEED AT CHRISTMAS
The Power of the Seed in Every Season
Understanding the Season of Christmas and the Seeds We Must Plant
Introduction
God governs life by seasons, and He advances His purposes through seeds. Nothing of lasting value appears suddenly without first being planted. Every harvest is the result of a seed placed in the right ground at the right time. Christmas is not only a celebration of birth; it is a revelation of God’s seed principle at work.
When we look at Christmas through spiritual understanding, we realize that God Himself participated in the law of the seed. He did not redeem the world by decree alone. He planted a seed. His Son was sown into the earth of humanity so that a global harvest of salvation could come forth.
What we plant in a season determines what we harvest in the next. The seed we plant now is what we will reap in the coming year.
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SEED
Genesis 8:22 establishes an unchanging law. As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest will not cease. This means that life operates by divine order. Results do not come by wishes but by seeds.
Jesus explained this principle in Mark 4:26. The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.
The seed grows, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain. Growth is gradual, but it is guaranteed.
A seed carries future within it. It may look small, insignificant, or buried, but it contains everything needed for multiplication. When you plant a seed, you are not losing it; you are investing it into tomorrow.
GOD PLANTED A SEED AT CHRISTMAS
John 3:16 declares that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Giving is the act of planting. God placed His most precious seed into the soil of the earth.
Isaiah 53 describes Jesus as a tender plant growing out of dry ground. Humanity was spiritually barren, yet God planted His seed there anyway. This teaches us a powerful truth. The condition of the ground does not cancel the power of the seed.
Jesus Himself affirmed this principle in John 12:24 when He said that unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. Christmas planted the seed. The cross buried it. The resurrection released the harvest.
Because God planted one Son, He harvested many sons. Romans 8:29 tells us that Jesus became the firstborn among many brethren.
HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT PLANTED THE SEED IN MARY
The planting of God’s seed did not happen by human effort or natural ability. Luke 1:35 explains that the Holy Spirit came upon Mary and the power of the Most High overshadowed her. What was conceived in her was not the result of flesh, but of divine intervention.
This reveals a deep spiritual truth. The Holy Spirit is the agent of conception in God’s kingdom. Mary did not strive, manipulate, or force the process. She received. The seed was planted when the Word was believed and accepted. Luke 1:38 records her surrender, let it be to me according to your word. The Word became seed, and the Spirit brought conception.
This teaches us that spiritual fruitfulness begins with alignment. When the Word of God meets a surrendered heart, the Holy Spirit produces life. Eternity entered time through faith, obedience, and divine power.
THE QUESTION WE MUST ASK OURSELVES
WHAT ARE WE PLANTING AND WHAT ARE WE CONCEIVING
Mary’s womb became the birthplace of salvation because her heart was fertile soil. This leads us to an unavoidable question. If God planted His seed through the Holy Spirit, what seeds are we allowing into our own hearts.
Our hearts function like spiritual wombs. Proverbs 4:23 tells us to guard our hearts because out of them flow the issues of life. Whatever we consistently receive, meditate on, and agree with eventually becomes what we conceive.
Faith is a seed. Fear is a seed. Truth is a seed. Offense is a seed. The Word of God is a seed. The voices we listen to, the thoughts we entertain, and the attitudes we nurture are all forms of planting.
If we plant fear, we conceive anxiety. If we plant bitterness, we conceive division. If we plant faith, we conceive obedience. If we plant the Word, we conceive purpose. Just as Mary conceived Christ through surrender to God’s Word, we also conceive outcomes according to what we receive and believe.
CHRISTMAS AS A STRATEGIC PLANTING SEASON
Christmas is not just an ending of a year; it is a transition season. Transition seasons are planting seasons. What you plant during transition determines what you enter next.
Many people wait for January to think about harvest, but God teaches us to sow before the season changes. Ecclesiastes 11:6 encourages us to sow our seed in the morning and not withhold it in the evening, for we do not know which will prosper.
Christmas invites reflection, humility, and generosity. These are fertile conditions for planting powerful seeds.
SEEDS WE MUST PLANT DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON
One important seed is the seed of gratitude. Gratitude honors what God has already done and creates room for more. Psalm 50:23 says that whoever offers praise glorifies God.
Another seed is the seed of generosity. Just as God gave His Son, Christmas invites us to give. Luke 6:38 teaches that giving activates increase. Generosity at the end of the year positions us for abundance in the next.
We must also plant the seed of forgiveness. Matthew 6:14 makes it clear that forgiveness unlocks freedom. Unforgiveness contaminates the soil of the heart and blocks future harvest.
The seed of obedience is equally vital. Mary said in Luke 1:38, let it be to me according to your word. Her obedience became the womb for God’s seed. Obedience always attracts divine purpose.
We must also plant the seed of faith. Faith is the soil that allows divine promises to grow. Hebrews 11:6 tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God.
UNDERSTANDING THE DELAY BETWEEN SEED AND HARVEST
One of the greatest challenges with the seed principle is patience. Seeds do not produce immediately. There is a process of burial, waiting, and growth.
Galatians 6:9 encourages believers not to grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Due season means God’s appointed time, not ours.
Christmas reminds us that God is faithful to His timing. The promise of a Savior was given in Genesis, but the seed was planted thousands of years later. God never forgot His word.
THE SOIL MATTERS
Jesus taught in Matthew 13 that the condition of the soil determines the outcome of the seed. The same seed produces different results depending on the heart that receives it.
Christmas is an invitation to examine our soil. Pride hardens the ground. Fear creates shallow roots. Distraction chokes growth. Humility, repentance, and hunger make fertile soil.
God planted His Son into a humble womb and into a surrendered life. That is why the seed flourished.
WHAT YOU PLANT NOW SHAPES THE NEW YEAR
The transition into a new year is not shaped by resolutions but by seeds. Prayer planted now becomes answers later. Discipline planted now becomes stability later. Faithfulness planted now becomes fruitfulness later.
Job 8:7 says that though your beginning was small, your latter end will greatly increase. Increase always follows planting.
Christmas teaches us that endings are not conclusions but planting points.
CONCLUSION
The power of the seed is active in every season, and Christmas is one of the most strategic seasons of all. God showed us the way by planting His Son into the earth through the Holy Spirit and a surrendered vessel. That seed changed history, defeated sin, and opened eternal life.
Now the question remains. What are you planting and what are you conceiving. The seed you allow into your heart today will shape the harvest of tomorrow.
Do not waste this season. Plant gratitude, and you will harvest joy. Plant generosity, and you will harvest abundance. Plant obedience, and you will harvest purpose. Plant faith, and you will harvest breakthroughs.
Seeds planted in humility will rise in glory. The seed you plant now is the harvest you will live in tomorrow.
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