John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Here Jesus speaks to the heart of the germination I spoke of yesterday. You can relate to this spiritual concept in your born again life by comparing spiritual with the natural. In this the first three stages of germination directly relate to being born again.

Those three stages are imbibition, respiration and light. All three must occur before the root grows into a fruit bearing tree. (ref Psalm 1:3)

Consider again that the seed is the gospel being planted in your heart. The nature of the seed is to achieve God’s will in your heart.

Imbibition is a swelling of the seed and causing expansion by the introduction of water. Water spiritually is represented by the spirit. The spirit causes the Word to expand in your heart until like the corn of wheat, the container, bursts.

Psalm 34:18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Second is respiration and perhaps the easiest to understand. God breathing life back into us.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The third is light. God’s Word, Jesus Christ.

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

This is how God’s love germinates our souls.

But first, the seed must be cast abroad liberally where it might lay dormant until the spirit seizes the right time for Imbibition.