The word of God, the Gospel. Should sleep, and rise, etc. While giving the seed sown time to germinate and come forth. First the blade. There is a law of orderly development in natural growth, so also is it in reference to spiritual growth.
Some growths are quicker than others, but in all there is growth.
And we have no right to look for the end at the beginning, the ripened Christian experience in the young convert, the full corn in the first appearance of the blade. Observe, too, that we can know that there is growth by its results, though we know not how, and that each stage of the growth is more apparent than the preceding stage. Immediately he putteth in the sickle. Then those who exhibit the fruit are to be gathered into the church. Like a grain of mustard seed.