SEED AND EGG, WORD AND FAITH, A RECIPE FOR LIFE

We have, in the act of procreation, a picture and teaching of the birth from above, commonly known as the new birth, being born again. I will first describe the physical, then move on to the spiritual. Watch as the connections abound. I will only be scratching the surface, but I hope it stirs you to meditate more on this and see what Father teaches you in addition to these things.

The male, (the father) carries the sperm. The female, (the mother) carries the egg. All of her eggs are present from birth, and, once a month, evidence of those eggs is experienced in the menstrual cycle, when one or 2 eggs matures and releases, ready to be joined to the lucky sperm who happens to find her first.

Through intercourse, the seed is deposited and meets and merges with the egg. They are designed for each other, one part from the male, the seeking part, and the other part from the female, the receiving part that responds. It is then and only then that the desired life is manifested as a newly conceived child of the parents.

Just before we move on to the spiritual, keep in mind the following:

The sperm is from the male.

The egg is from the female.

The part from the male does the seeking.

The part from the female does the receiving and responding.

God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
(Gen 1:11 WEB (R))

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
(Gen 12:7 WEB (R))

In scripture, the Hebrew word for seed is 'zera.' It happens to be a masculine word. It is used for any type of seed, whether of plants, or of the human male.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
(Luk 8:11 WEB (R))

That seed is also something possessed by our Father in heaven. His seed though, is his word, his 'dabar', which means something combined or arranged in order. This is precisely what makes a word a word, letters arranged in a certain way to form words.

That word though, seeks an egg, something with which to merge with and bear the fruit of life. that egg, is faith. The Hebrew word for faith is 'emunah', which happens to be a feminine word. That is what we possess, although not of ourselves. It is given to us by our creator:

...God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
(Rom 12:3 WEB (R))

The seed, by itself, cannot function as intended, if it is alone. Neither can faith. They need each other, as Paul demonstrated in the example he wrote about concerning our forefathers in the wilderness:

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
(Heb 4:2 WEB (R))

You see, when the message of the good news is proclaimed, that is the sowing of seed God uses in the hearts of individuals in whom he has given a measure of faith. It is his responsibility to see to it that the seed finds the faith inside and unites with it. This is what the writers refer to as the opening of the eyes, or being awakened to the things of God. It is truly another consciousness, a God consciousness, and it is his pleasure and doing. We merely respond to what He does in us, for this birth is, as John wrote:

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
(Joh 1:12-13 WEB (R))

We receive him in the same way that the egg receives the sperm, or in the same way we received the death of the first Adam. It has nothing to do with our desire or will, nor of any other persons desire or will for us. It is only 'of God', meaning, as the Contemporary English Version renders it: 'God himself was the one who made them [and us] his children.'

It never ceases to amaze me how so many things right in front of us teach us so much about the realities of the spirit. I am so glad that it is of him, as his doing. Aren't you?

Ron