Death is the Gate to Life

It's strange how that death seems the end of life to us, but it is actually the gateway to life.

You sow a seed into the ground and it is only as the seed dies that the grain comes up.

what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. . . . It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. (1Co 15:36, 43)

In our quest for life we often miss the boat, not realizing that it is only as we are willing to give up our life that we will truly find life.

Jesus said, "He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it."
(Mat 10:39)

Is God a great enough priority in your life that you are willing to die to your life as you know it in order to find life as He has intended it?

Maybe God is calling you to step out of the boat- not because He wants you to walk on water, but because you're in the wrong boat.

We should be willing to pour our lives out for the kingdom of God, knowing that as death works in us, life will spring forth in others.

So then death is working in us, but life in you. (2Co 4:12)

The Health, Wealth, and Prosperity preachers have it right when they say we should generously sow our seed in faith. Where they miss it is when they say that the purpose of this is to reap a personal harvest. We generously pour ourselves into the ministry of God and generously sow our seed in faith trusting that God will bring a great harvest to His kingdom and to others. And in the process of witnessing God use us to bring life to others we will find ourselves truly rich.

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.