Apples in a seed

Someone said, “Anybody can count the number of seeds in an apple. But only God can count the number of apples in a seed.”

God alone knows the potential of every seed that is sown. Only He can truly see the far-reaching effects of a single seed. When a Gospel seed is sown in just one life it can reap a great harvest. In every family the first one to come to Christ is usually never the last. That one life affects others.     My wife was the first in her family to come to Christ. Then her two sisters followed. Then her grandmother, mother, and father also. 

When an American preacher, called Mordecai Ham, held a crusade in a tent, he gave an altar call for men and women to come to Christ.            Only two young men went forward that night. It may have seemed a small return for all his labours, but the Gospel seed that had been sown in one of those young men had the potential to bring millions to Christ. One of those young men was Billy Graham, who went on to be the most heard evangelist of the 20th century. Only God can count the number of apples in a seed. 

When Saul of Tarsus left Jerusalem for Damascus to arrest every believer in Christ he could find, he never thought that day would be the most momentous day of his entire life. Who would have thought that the most vehement protagonist of Christ’s church would become, from that hour, the most prolific advocate of Christianity?  The Apostle Paul became the greatest missionary evangelist the world had ever known. Two thirds of the New Testament were written by him. Only God can count the number of apples in a seed. 

There is so much potential in you. Every believer has a unique testimony. When you share your story with someone else, it may reach further than you ever could imagine. When you witness for Christ to a colleague, a friend, a neighbour, a loved one, you never can tell just how far-reaching that can be. Only God can count the number of apples in a seed. 

A man was asked, “What did you do yesterday?” He replied, “Yesterday I taught a class in the Criswell College. On Tuesday I was down in the Rio Grande Valley working in the Vacation Bible School. On Wednesday I was operating in our Baptist hospital in Nigeria. On Thursday I was teaching the Word of God in the Amazon jungle. On Friday I was building a church in the Philippines. On Saturday I was preaching in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.” The friend exclaimed, “Man, even in this jet age you cannot do all that!” The fellow said, “But I do it every day. I dedicate to the Lord a gift to my church and it goes all over the earth doing good for Jesus.”

Only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

- Pastor David Goudy