Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days. The lesson of this verse, if the figure be dropped, may be expressed thus: Act upon principles and not upon likelihood. I. A SIMILITUDE. The good we give to men when we preach and teach Divine truth, when we exercise Christian influence, is seed - fruit-bearing seed. It is a blessed, but a sacred and serious, occupation to sow the seed of spiritual life. II. A DIRECTION. Christian sowers! Cast your bread even upon the waters. 1. Even upon an unkindly soil. 2. Even in an unpromising season. 3. Liberally, though at the cost of self-sacrifice. 4. Constantly, even though it seems that the sowing has been long carried on in vain. 5. Bravely and hopefully, although the calculating, shortsighted world deride your efforts. III. A PROMISE. After lapse of days you shall find the bread you have dispersed. 1. What is cast abroad is not destroyed. 2. Neither is it lost sight of. 3. It shall, perhaps after many days, be found again. It may be in time; it shall be in eternity. Then "he that soweth and he that reapeth shall rejoice together." - T. Parallel Verses KJV: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.WEB: Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. |
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