The Seed that Meets Our Need

UV 1280/10,000 The Seed that Meets Our Need

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.

Genesis 3 v 15

This uni-verse is the very first prophetic promise of the Messiah, the Christ, the One anointed to save all mankind, the Saviour of the world, the One who will crush the head of the enemy of all mankind-satan. Indeed, the Seed of God became the seed of man in order to meet the past, present, future and eternal need of mankind. We need to be absolved of the willful, known, hidden and secret shortcomings of our past. We need to be able to face the moral, spiritual, social, physical, intellectual and emotional challenges of the present and the future. We need to overcome death and the fear of death. We need to overcome the penalties of the judgement of God. We are a bruised and hurt people, bruised physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. We need healing. We need to be made whole.

We need to end our friendship with our common enemy- satan and become Friends of God. We need a relationship with God. We ourselves need to become the good seed in the field referred to in Jesus’s parable of the sower of seed who hear His word and His promise and both believe and obey it. We need hope to live forever. We know we cannot do it on our own. We cannot help ourselves. We need to be able to resist the temptations and weaknesses, pressures and pleasures of our flesh. We need to be able to live fully and free from our fears. We realize that we are a needy people, craving for the blessings of the Lord.

Under the old covenant, the blessings were exclusively reserved for the first born. The first born was prepared to inherit and rule the father’s household. The first born of all cattle was sacrificed as it was reserved for God. The sacrifice of the first born was symbolic forerunner of the sacrifice of Jesus. But the first born of God, Jesus being the Seed of God by becoming the seed of man, one of us, He crushed all the power of the evil one under His heel. He freely shared the blessings of the first born with every one of us. We are being prepared to rule on His behalf over all the earth. Our faith makes us spiritual heirs and descendants with Jesus of Abraham. Our power to rule makes us spiritual descendants and heirs with Jesus of King David. Jesus declares us Friends of God and children of God, brothers and sisters with Him. We only need to be grafted and rooted to Him by faith. Further, we will bear fruit in love of forgiveness, of goodness, of joy, peace, humility, kindness.

Prateep V Philip