DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: OCTOBER 1 MYSTERY OF LIFE IN THE DEAD (1) SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 15: 35 – 37

Everything about living stands on mysteries in the sense that processes of living is beyond the knowledge of man. How water came into be, how trees came into existence, how rain is formed and fall upon the earth and how human beings are formed in women’s wombs are taught. But the facts behind them all are still mystery. Amongst all the mysteries of living, one that is to look into today is the processes of a life in the dead. The exact Bible reference might not be found but Apostle Paul’s illustration of Jesus’ resurrection and seed planting is considered fitting here. Apostle Paul said the seed that germinates into plant was not sown as the physical plant but as a small seed first. This seed first dies in the ground, germinates, then grows into the plant the seed contains. Apostle Paul talked on this processes as seen in 1 Cor. 15: 35 – 50.

The seed of groundnut for instance is sown, died or swollen up to a dying level, changed to budding and germinates to grow up into groundnut leaves and seeds. The processes involved here is that the real seed breaks down, regenerates into groundnut plants. In sowing clothes the tailors cut a whole cloth into pieces to reassemble them into good wears. Carpenters do same to woods and planks for them to rebuild them into cabinet beds and chairs. Potters break down the clay into grounded grains, threaded into paste and clay before remolding it into different house vessels. Human beings break into different shape in the womb before been rebuilt at age of nine month to be born a solid child. It is said that at eightieth month a baby is broken and loosed completely in the womb.

Till date, natures are passing through breaking and rebuilding processes. In all these processes, the original dies briefly or destroyed briefly before coming back to a good whole again. God is still in the business of allowing us His children to be broken, tear down and at times grounded into insignificance before rebuilding us up again to who He wants us be. The breaking and rebuilding process can again be illustrated by renovating a house. The house owners in order to give their houses a new look will break down some parts of the houses, gives them a new design and rebuild them again into very good looking structures. We will be using the illustration of seed planting and house renovation to see how God breaks us so as to rebuild us in life in the two series following today’s devotional.

PRAYER:

FATHER JEHOVAH, as I go into studying the process of breaking and rebuilding in this series of the devotional, open up my understanding so as to be fully rebuilt in Jesus name.

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