Let’s look at a watermelon seed. After it is planted, it soon sprouts little leaves on a stem that begins creeping along the ground. A huge melon eventually grows on the watermelon vine, hundreds of times the size and weight of the seed it came from. Most of us have eaten this delicious fruit—green on the outside with a thick, white rind and a juicy, sweet, red center with many black seeds.
Over 20 years ago, scientists developed watermelons without seeds. But growers still have to plant a special seed to grow a seedless watermelon plant. You may buy these special seeds if you want to grow your own seedless watermelons.
Where did that little seed get the ability to produce such huge fruit? The most intelligent man on earth cannot explain this wonderful process of different kinds of seeds producing their individual crops all over the world. This is an important part of God’s care for all living creatures. There is no end to the unsolved mysteries of His amazing power. Many wonders like this are going on day after day, often unknown or unnoticed by man, but always under the Creator’s care. This is true of every form of vegetation—grasses, flowers, bushes and trees, from the smallest to the greatest.
How do seeds get into the ground? Of course, many are planted by people, some on huge farms and others in smaller vegetable or flower gardens. But what about those not planted by people? Nuts are often deposited in the ground by small animals, especially squirrels and chipmunks. Even some birds will hide seeds in holes they have dug in the ground, planning to return to eat them later. However, they often forget some, and these hidden “seeds” take root and eventually grow into new trees or bushes.
But in the wild, seeds from grasses, flowers and fruit drop to the ground and are soon covered over with dead leaves, dried grass or brush. Moistened by spring rains or melted snow, they sprout several leaves and send roots down into the soil—and a new plant begins.
Seeds never get confused and develop into some new kind of plant. Cucumbers never come from apple seeds, wheat does not come from a kernel of corn, nor does a tulip spring up from a daisy seed. Ever since the Lord God created them, they follow His plan and reproduce “after their kind” (Genesis 1:2121And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:21)).
The Creator is the One of whom the Bible tells us, “All things were created by Him, and for Him; and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist [survive]” (Colossians 1:16-1716For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:16‑17)). Another verse tells us, “The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord” (Psalm 33:55He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. (Psalm 33:5)). Have you thanked Him for these wonderful arrangements He planned for us?
ML-06/15/2014