God's Word is likened unto seed.

That means it is alive! It is the living Word. Life springs up from it. "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever," 1 Peter 1:23.

(A sapling germinated 2005 from a 2,000-year-old date palm seed, found at Masada in 1973 and which lay in a drawer until planted in 2005, is thriving, according to Israeli researchers who are cultivating the historic plant.)

The word must be planted by the hand of God in the heart before it will take root and grow. "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people," Jeremiah 31:33.

Such a person is easily known."I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart," Psalm 40:8. The true Christians begins to GROW to look and act like the Lord!