Seeds Don’t Grow in Pockets
Buying seeds for a garden is a hope-filled activity. Vision, planning, and preparation all go into choosing the seeds that will create a beautiful—or even edible—landscape. Those little packets hold all our hope for the next growing season. We pick them out for just the right place, envisioning what we’ll grow and how it will look. Gardeners and farmers alike look toward the next season with hope—an expectation that the ground will yield what is needed.
But here’s the truth: those seeds grow nothing until they’re planted.
I’ve been here before—standing with the seed in my hand, seeing its potential but feeling scared to plant it. Planting means risk. It means putting hope into the ground and trusting something unseen to bring it to life.
I’ve watched God bring beauty from buried things before, but here I am again—holding another seed, knowing what’s inside, yet hesitating to let it go. But that’s where faith begins again… not in having the seed, but in daring to plant it one more time.
Sometimes the pocket feels safer than the ground. However, unless it is planted in good soil, it only holds potential. The life is inside, but it must be released through planting.
“…Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
So what does a seed of faith grow?
Jesus said in Matthew 17:20 (NKJV):
“…Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
And again in Matthew 13:31–32 (NKJV):
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
Faith, like that tiny seed, carries divine potential—but it only grows when planted. Faith has to go into something: into obedience, into prayer, into surrender, into action. When we plant our faith into the soil of God’s Word and water it with trust, it grows into something far greater than we imagined—something that gives life, shade, and refuge to others.
So maybe the question today isn’t whether you have faith, but where you’re planting it.
Hope is having the seed, faith is planting it.
Are you holding the seed in your hand, waiting for perfect conditions, or are you trusting God enough to place it in the ground where it can die, take root, and grow? Faith that stays in the pocket can’t move mountains—it only holds potential. But when we dare to plant it—when we forgive, obey, pray, or take that next small step—our faith comes alive. The seed breaks open, and what once looked small begins to reveal the power and life of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Plant your seed. Watch what God grows.
