Soggy Bread............

Luk 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.

Ecc 11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

I was up pretty early this morning..... OUCH my back!!

.....While doing around out in my shop trying not to wake my precious DH I decided to read a few posts and see who was up..... I went to one of my favorite blogs just to see what she was up to......... and there it was...... She is a giver!!!!!! I love givers, don't you......... I am a giver and have always been and sometimes to a fault...... Cannot help it..... it is just there....... You may have not seen that side of me yet but hang in there it is coming........ anyway, back to my point........ We are only asked to give...... that's it, just give......... Give of time, and give of understanding and give of love....... give of food, give of money if needed, give of gifts. A listening ear is a gift, give it... . Give of your strength to those that are struggling and give without expectation..... Where there is a need you stand on that shore line and you toss that bread......

... Now ... It is not our job to keep that record straight..... that belongs to the Father God...

BUT .......... if after having cast that bread you are standing out there and shielding your eyes from the sun.....and staring out the same shore line where you tossed that bread you need to just head to the house..... The word does not tell us that our return is coming from that same body of water........ but it is coming....... I have stood and looked toward the horizon of my body of water where my bread was tossed for far too long, only to realize that God will bring the return and it might be in the neighbors pond across the street or it might be from the shore line in a distant land.......... Am I making sense to you......

...We are asked to do and to give and to work and to share and to toil..... sorry hated to use that word..... but that is the Jesus in us....... Ever seeking out those that are in need or ever asking us to stretch and toss that bread......... but we must not expect that return from the same source that we gave........When we expect back from those that we have blessed we are setting our self up for disappointment........... That bread was intended for someone else and it is not ours...........

.........I am guilty guilty of that..... Standing out there and watching for that little morsel to come floating my way.......... Just the other day I was whining about a situation in my life to another blogger ....... (cry baby) looking for even a crumb..........!!!!!!! It ain't gonna happen............

.... The Father knows of our need and He has watched us throw that bread out there and He keeps perfect record......... sooooooooooo when the time comes that I need the bread of understanding or the bread of help, or the bread of comfort......... you get the picture........... He will speak to another believer that has bread in their hand and that believer will toss that out and you had better believe that it will float right up to my dock........... That is a spiritual fact and it cannot be dismissed any more that the law of H2O............ It is a law and He will watch over His word to perform it in that day........

....... So I was very convicted this morning early as I read the other blog, oh not by her words of course but by my comment to her post.............. I need to practice what I preach and in the commenting on her blog the Holy Spirit told me to go inside and quit looking for the bread that I was casting out.............. He has bread that I know not of right now.......... but bread it is and it is headed my way...................

.......... So I will continue to give....... I will do and I will serve........ and I will do those things AS UNTO THE LORD........ not expecting the praise of man........... I will continue to cast it out......... I will walk away from the edge of that water with the calm assurance that I have not gone unnoticed by the Father.. and is that not what we are all in this for.................. To please the Father.................

Load up your giver basket and toss it out there................