Has The Pollination Taken Place?

How fast the corn is growing! An old farm saying when I was a boy was, “knee-high by the 4^th of July!” Would you believe it…now it gets that high by at least a month earlier?

The other day, a friendly farmer showed me the pollinator corn being planted between every 4 regular rows of corn to produce high-grade seed corn. Later, after it has done its job, these rows are sacrificed and cut down.

How we have controlled the development of our plants…we can make the stalks tall or short; we can determine the number of ears per stalk, and the size or length of the ear. We can plant special corn for dry areas or wet spots…early spring or late spring. In that tiny kernel of corn, we can store the facts to determine exactly what it will do!

Why are we so slow in developing that more perfect human being? Oh, we’ve developed taller people, stronger and faster people; but somewhere along the line, we have not developed nicer people, more loving and peaceable people.

Jesus came as that perfect pollinator-person we were meant to be! He made that complete sacrifice so that we might be able to go on living more abundant lives. Why not take the beauty of his life, and the perfection of his spirit to pollinate and hybridize your own? How could you talk about salvation in more specific terms?