What do you call a potato that has been launched into space?
The Spudnik
A little historian/ bad joke humor for you.
So for this morning’s ministry to the Bible College, my team and I were given the task of planting a couple hundred seed potatoes, and so this brought up a great question in what does planting potatoes have to do with life in Christ?
You will be amazed to learn that there are many tie ins about this subject that my team and I came up with, and shared thanks to my teammate Schyler ( who I also credit for giving me this blog idea too)
31 He put another parable before them, saying, z“The kingdom of heaven is like aa grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches”- Matt. 13:31-32
Just like how I was planting some very tiny seed potatoes, those little potatoes will eventually become large potatoes that will be used to feed people. That is also how faith begins in the heart of a person once they become a believer, as someone plants a seed of faith in their heart and then as that person studies the word, that faith seed grows, and hopefully that person will want to go and tell the good news to others, and “feed” them the word of our Lord in hopes that they too will see the light that is Jesus Christ.
Also sometimes when you are doing the Lord’s work, you might not always see the fruits of your labors right away, but over time that seed will grow, and will spread far beyond what a single one of us could do, and be able to work in a way that we might not even know to begin with when we planted that seed in the first place.
The seed of faith has to grow in a secret place, and that seed of faith also grows from a place of darkness as in our lives there is sin and darkness from our past. We try to keep that sin a secret place away from everyone, but God sees both our light and our darkness, and in that darkness he places that seed of faith in hopes that seed of faith will grow in our hearts, and help us to see the light like a potato will once it is picked from the ground after it has fully matured, just like over time the faith in our hearts need to mature before we can call ourselves full children of God, and can be with him one day.
While in the ground the old potato begins to rot, and in the process the spores that are given off plant themselves in place of the old potato, and will eventually grow into a new potato. This is symbolism for how when we became believers our past sin rots away, and we are cleansed by the spirit, and made new by the blood of Christ, and over time it is the spirit that will grow in us in place of that sin.
So yeah its amazing what we can learn from just a simple potato.
