‘’Wouldst thou,’ so the helmsman answered,
‘Learn the secret of the sea?
Only those who brave its dangers
Comprehend its mystery.’”
“For meek obedience, too, is light,
And following that is finding Him.”
The figure of the seed is very common in the Scriptures. All natural life begins in germs and develops into fullness of form and strength. The same law prevails in the spiritual world. The kingdom of heaven begins in a heart as a very little seed and grows until it fills all the life. Every word of God is a seed which encloses a living germ; plant it in the soil of faith and prayer, and it will grow.
There is one passage, however, in which the figure of the seed is very striking: “Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.” “Light” stands for all spiritual blessing, and the thought is that our blessings are sown for us just as wheat grains and flower seeds are sown, and that we gather the harvest from this sowing as we pluck flowers from garden or wildwood or reap the wheat from the fields. God gives us our blessings not full formed, but as seeds.
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