Cast your bread upon many waters

The flowers you plant today will return to bloom for you

Trust Maanda
Looking at the Unseen
ECCLESIASTES 11:1
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
The Scripture is encouraging us, as it were, to throw away our most precious possessions on which we depend for a livelihood or sustenance.
Bread is food, it is life. It is sustenance.
Casting bread is like you are losing something that is precious. Casting it upon the waters is like you are never going to get in back again.
It will float and disappear with the waters.
But that bread you cast upon the waters will return to you after many days. You will find that bread after many days. The days are not determined. It is an uncertainty in respect of the days in which you will find it, but it is a certainty that it will certainly be found.
When you cast your bread, you are losing out. The water body on which you cast the bread holds large quantities of waters. Many waters are many people.
Revelation 17:1 says: “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.”
The interpretation of many waters is in verse 15 (Revelation 17:15) KJV which says: “And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”
Many waters, then, are many people, of different nationalities and languages. By casting your bread upon waters, we are being called upon to be generous to all people.
We are called upon to do good to all men. It looks like we are losing when we come to someone’s aid. But after we have long forgotten our good deeds, something good will happen to us in return.
It may not come from the person we helped, but it will certainly come from other quarters, but as a direct response to the bread we cast on the waters.
We do not give help with an expectation to receive a reward in return. We do it subconsciously. But we receive blessings anyhow.
If you sow little, you shall reap little. That is why you should cast your bread upon many waters.
2 Corinthians 9:6 reads: “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
Jesus said in Luke 6:38: “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
The measure we mete out is the measure we will receive. Men will in return, lay into our bosom a good measure which is pressed down, shaken together and running over.
I have never given anyone any money, who really needed it, without me receiving back that money and more, one way or another within that same day or few days thereafter.
Sometimes the money comes back long after I have forgotten that I helped someone out. The good you do will return to bless you. The bad you do will return to haunt you.
Jonathan was good to David, although Saul, his father hated him.
When David became king, he thought of blessing someone of the house of Saul for the sake of Jonathan. Mephibosheth, a lame son of Jonathan who was staying in the back of the beyond was remembered. He was lame on both feet but David said for the sake of Jonathan, he would sit and eat at David’s table. The good you do now, will bless your future generations. Cast your bread upon many waters.
If you want somebody to say something good about you, you say something good about somebody else; they will say something good about you. Cast your bread upon the water; it will return to you. The bread will not only return, but will return buttered. You will get more than you gave. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We should not be weary in doing well, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not get tired.
Galatians 6:9: “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Sow the right seed, you will reap the right crop. If you sow the wrong seed, you will reap the wrong thing.
The flowers you plant today will return to bloom for you. They will produce a scent, an aroma for you.
The bees that will take nectar from them, will produce honey for you. The trees you plant today will provide you shed and fruits. The children you bear today will look after you.