Do you know how to share?

As a people we desire to be in relationship with each other.  We were created for that exact purpose.  We were created to be in relationship with God.  When a person decides to block out the relationships around them they are excluding themselves from exactly what they were created for, community.  

Have you ever known a wise person who wasn’t able, or chose not to share their wisdom?  Kind of foolish don’t you think?  What does it serve for one person to have knowledge on a topic, and not share it with the people around him?  When we learn something we should be eager to discuss what we have learned with the people around us.  We should be optimistically cautious as to whom we share our information with but we should be eager to share what we have learned. 

I personally have always been the kind of person who will question everything.  I will question even my question, so that I can gather as much information and knowledge possible to enlarge my understanding on topics that interest me.  I do this so that I can share what I have learned with other people.   There is a verse in Matthew 15:18 that says, but the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart.   So when your heart is full with understanding and wisdom you will hear it out of your mouth.  This can also be true for things that defile the man, so it can work for good and for evil. 

I say all of this to say that man is not to live alone in silence, nor should he live alone with his wisdom and thoughts.   If you are keeping your wisdom quiet, you are taking that wisdom with you when you perish, so what good is that to you, or the people around you?  You have stopped the process of learning when you choose to contain your knowledge. 

In John 12:24 Jesus says I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains (just one grain; it never becomes more but lives) by itself alone.  But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest. 

What does this all mean?  When you have one grain of wheat that falls into the ground and dies, the wheat never matures and yields a harvest, in fact, the grain of wheat will live by itself alone.  This one grain of wheat alone isn’t able to turn itself into a harvest, as it lives solitary.  But if this grain of wheat matures and then dies it will yield a rich harvest.  

The difference is the one grain was alone, not able to share, the other one was among other grains of wheat and could be part of the harvest.   This grain of wheat symbolizes us and what we can do with our knowledge of Jesus.  We can be selfish with our understanding and relationship with Jesus, or we can be a like a matured wheat grain that blows in the wind and produces a rich harvest.    If we don’t share with the people around us about Christ, we are not bringing in a harvest to the Kingdom of God.  Our jobs as Disciples of Christ are to bring other people into relationship with Jesus. 

This is what Jesus did in his short time here on earth.  Jesus took his knowledge and spread it around everyone he came across.  Jesus took the qualities of God and shared them with the people he came in contact with.  Some people reveled in the knowledge of God and some people felt threatened by Jesus.   Jesus was only threatening to someone who thought they had control over the people and might lose that to someone like Jesus.  They were threatened by him out of Jealousy and Fear.  They themselves needed to enter into a relationship with God. 

Jesus was like a dandelion once it has begun to wither.  Their petals become seeds and lots of times as children you would blow on them and make a wish.  Jesus is like that dandelion.  When he is coming to the end of his time here on earth, he took his seed and he blew it into the wind.    If his seed landed on good soil it would be fertilized and sprout a new flower, or a new believer.  That person would then share their belief in Jesus with other people.  This is how you would come to know and to be introduced to God. 

When you share information about God you will feel a sense of excitement and feel energized, in a sense, because you are doing exactly what you were created to do, glorify God.  When you bring a light into a dark room the light will penetrate the darkness and spread throughout the space.  This is like the love of God.  When God enters into your dark, hardened heart, his love begins to soften your heart and soon enough he has begun to take over the person.  The person will then start to share their experience of change through God with the people around him and they will then begin to have their own experiences with God. 

We were created to be in relationship with God.  We were created to glorify him, so when your seed falls onto fertile ground it can bring forth a harvest to the kingdom of God.   Don’t allow yourself to be the one who holds all the prizes of God to himself.  Don’t keep your light bottled up in your heart.  Let Gods light and love burst out of you and on to the people around you.   Be like the grain of wheat that falls on the ground and dies to self, so that it can bring a rich harvest!