Ecclesiastes 11:1. “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.”
MY BREAD. The bread is mine, it is in my hand to keep or to else to use. The seed gives life when dead. Do I want a lot or a little bread? The choice is mine, to throw it on waters widely spread, Or eat it now – what to do with a handful of precious seed?
The waters are there, not far but close at hand, within my reach. The seed looks good, I can make it food – Now or later, the choice is mine to satisfy what I perceive a need –
Will I plant – or grind and eat the seed?
If I throw it now out upon the waters dark and moving away from me; Will I see it again? Will it sprout and make grain? I know the answer to be from the Life-Source – great increase. But will I cast it and wait for many days?
My hunger now is not so great that life flees away from me. It’s just the flavor, The taste I savor. If the seed I cast away on water to germinate and multiply its kind; Am I ready and willing to give what’s mine?
My hand holds tight, the feel of grain I like, it’s smooth and full; Its texture is pleasing; Its scent is teasing My palate; and taste buds bring water flowing on my waiting tongue. Will I hold it or let it be gone?
Wisdom arises from where it was hidden behind want and avarice. “Cast it...” “Spread it…” Upon the waters far and wide; that coming from the falling tide The seed brings bread so multiplied that you’ll be fed and full and others too.
And others too, from seed sown from the open hand of grace Will taste and know, And feed and grow, From bread made theirs by life from God’s own source but through my hand, The seed has gone, and returned some thirty, sixty and one hundred -fold.
“O God of all grace, and Supplier of every good and perfect gift: this bread in my hand that I feed on each day. Must I; should I, pass it on to the waters of the souls of others or is this something from Thy great supply for my soul to pass back to Thee as an act of worship? I await a reply that is unmistakable: in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”