[Discoveries] 06-16-08 Bread -- Ecclesiastes 11:1

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it 
again. -- Ecclesiastes 11:1*/

Why would we cast our bread upon the waters? Pretty simple: You can't 
keep it. It molds; it spoils; it dries out. Who wants stale bread? 
Better to give away what we have when we still have strength to give.

It's a reckless thing, really. Giving. Giving away. Giving up. Letting go.

Upon the waters, we cast our bread. The bread is soon gone. It 
disappears and we cannot bring it back.

That is the beauty of all of this. When we give our lives away, we 
cannot go and retrieve what we have surrendered. Everything we give away 
is now in Other Hands.

The verse says, "many days." You may have given, and given, and given. I 
suspect you probably now have forgotten most of what you've given away. 
But there is Someone who remembers.

How can bread cast upon waters come back to us? We all know the answer. 
It cannot. It's impossible. It would take a miracle.

But then again, that's what you and I signed up for.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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