To live with Christ and to die is gain

Well it's been awhile again since I've written, but trust me God has been at work, and then just today this profound truth hit me. I was praying this morning and in my quiet time God was showing me about how he resurrects situations that look dead and how he also sometimes breaks things down to the point of having no visual return. He showed me in Hebrews 11, how it was by Faith that Noah built an ark, and it was by Faith that Abraham packed his bags and left to a country that only God knew about to build a nation and a heritage only God could see. I t was by Faith that David as a shepherd boy took 3 stones and a sling and faced the Giant because he knew who his God was. And it was by Faith that Jesus went to the cross for us. I had known that he was trying to show me something but it hit me when my counselor said "ya know even a seed of corn must die to live, a kernel must be buried in order to take root and become a plant that bears more seed. I began to ponder this thought thinking about the dream God had given Russell and I to glorify the Lord and how right now it didn't appear to be happening, or even to be alive. But when I heard this it opened a new door and shined a new light on my perspective.

I began to think this is carried out all through nature and the Bible. A plants seed must die and be buried in order to live. Even Christ died and was buried and rose again on the third day, He died for our Salvation. We must die to this life in order to live a life with, for, and through Christ. His picture of Salvation is everywhere even in a kernel of corn, or a mustard seed. So now even though from human perspective I can't see my dream or God's plan flourishing out as I had hoped and believed it would be by now. I know that it too must die so that God can reproduce what he wants to out of my life He can resurrect it as his plan and he alone will be glorified. So should I give up? since God didn't show up on my time? Is my dream dead? No!!! It (like all things with eternal value)must die and be buried so that God alone can resurrect them. To God be the Glory forever!! So now I have a different way of seeing the vs. To live as Christ and to die is Gain. It's not the end only a new beginning.