I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:24 NIV

In order for the seed to produce, it must be put into the ground...actually it must fall to the ground. It must give up supporting itself, carrying its own weight, and fall down. It must die in the ground.

"Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over." John 12:24 The Message

I love how the Message says the grain must be buried in the ground. When something is buried, it is covered up....no one can see what's happening....and that's where something happens....if it stays buried. When it stays buried...covered up....unnoticed....that's when it begins to do what it was made to do: sprout! Reproduce! Over and over and over again!! When that grain is connected with the dirty, smothering, heavy, opaquing soil, it is changed into a life-giving plant instead of a hard, dry seed.

Which do I want to be? Where am I choosing to be? Out in the open....to be noticed? Or, buried....to be transformed?