Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
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… Look at chapter 11, verse one. Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. That is an ancient euphemism. Cast your bread upon the waters is an ancient euphemism for the shipping business. You'd put your stuff on a boat, your bread, so to speak, and you'd send it off into the vast uncontrollable ocean, knowing that it might never come back to you. In a day before insurance, that boat might sink or might get blown off course or pirates might plunder it. And putting it out there, you were taking a big old chance. But unless you do that, Solomon says, well, yeah, you're never gonna see it multiply. Even though the world is uncertain, even though you cannot have surety. Risk, he is saying, is an important part of a faithful life. By the way, that phrase, you don't know, that gets repeated four different times in this chapter. You don't know, verse two, what natural disasters might occur. You don't know, verse three, what the weather will do. …
… Ecclesiastes 11 and 1 says cast your bread upon the waters for after you you will find it after many days that means once you sow you give it many days you plant a seed it don't crop up the next day. It takes weeks, months before something grows. So you just need to be patient. So I've learned to live a life of sowing. So I'm reaping the blessings in my life today for seeds I planted months ago. I am in a regular posture of sowing. It's a regular way. It's the way I live my life. I'm always sowing. I'm always sowing. Amen. I'm so far past tithing. I mean, if you just tithing, that's elementary. That's first grade. No, no, that's kindergarten. Wait a minute. That's preschool. I'm always giving. I'm so far above my tides that I give every week, every month. I give to the church way past, way past, way past. Amen. And look, that's why I'm always reaping. I always got to harvest. Something good happening all the time. Every time I look up, Somebody put something in my hand. …
… From his word cast your bread upon the waters for after many days you'll find it again give portions to seven yes to eight for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land if clouds are full of water they pour rain upon the earth whether a tree falls to the south or to the north in the place where it falls, there will it lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant. Whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the path of the wind or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the maker of all things. Sow your seed in the morning. And at evening, let not your hands be idle. For you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. This is the word of God. You may be seated. Some years ago, I can't remember when it was actually, I was the guest at Tuskegee University and I stayed at the Kellogg Center across from the famous statue where Booker T. Washington is pulling the veil from over the head of a slave. …