When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body(1 Corinthians 15:37-38).

God knows.

We don’t.

We’ve played this tune before.

Beloved, why is it so hard for us–and by us, I mean me–to trust that God knows what he is doing, even when we can’t see it? Our brains–and by our, I mean our–are too small to understand how plants work, if we’re going to be really honest.

It’s simple, Michael. You plant the seed, and it pops open and the new plant emerges.

Uh huh…how?

Well, the cotyledon germinates and bursts from the spangyopan and produces myglocytes, and…

See, now you’re just making stuff up.

Beloved, if we can’t explain plants, how could we hope to understand how the seed we currently inhabit will be replaced with a new, resurrection body–much less what it will look like.

Oh, and I apologize to any agricultural biologists reading this–I’m sure the illustration was painful.

Happy Wednesday, Beloved