Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you. NLT
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. ESV
Ecclesiastes 11:1
This year has been a year of sowing for me. Sometimes I feel totally crazy, I invest in people that I meet; I travel from one place to another and give as much as I can away. I have no clue more then half the time if what I’m doing makes a rip of difference.
I have to simply trust that God knows what I’m doing, it makes sense to him. He knows all the angles and He’ll make it all work out for the good. Then I think… I don’t really have anything better to do. I’ll just be like a little kid and follow Jesus… I have to admit this life style is really adventurous and fun. The hard part of living like this is dealing with the lies; they are really easy to believe. Can you really give everything away and expect to be taken care of by Jesus when everything you’ve got is gone?
I think I’m just like the guy in the bible that Jesus asked to sell everything and give it to the poor. I just don’t want to go away sad like the guy in the bible did. I want to lose it all for Jesus, it’s all his anyway right? What does the story mean to me if I think, “oh yeah, well he’s talking to that guy not me, he isn’t really calling me out and telling me to sell everything.”
I don’t hear Jesus saying be stupid, but I hear Him saying trust me in this…. Will you trust me? If I had to sell one thing to gain another better thing would I? Am I willing to risk? I guess I have to come back to the question, what is motivating me? Fear or Love?
Verse two in Ecclesiastes says, But divide your investments among many places, for you don’t know what risks might lie ahead.
I guess if I divide my investments all over the world and sow wisely into the kingdom, and into wise earthly investments, I will reap a good harvest both in heaven and on earth. I guess my next question is; is that really possible?
Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if your profit will come from one activity or another- or maybe both.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 (NLT)
I’ve had an awesome month in Cambodia, the kids at the orphanage have stolen my heart, and I love the girls at the church that we have been discipling as well. To my surprise I have also really enjoyed teaching English. God is so good! We are leaving Phnom Penh tomorrow morning and heading up to Siem Riep to have debrief and to see Ankor Wat.
p.s. I got to name this new born baby boy, he is only 2 weeks old, he came to the orphanage when he was only 4 days old. He has stolen my heart for the last two weeks. His name is Aaron Simon Spratt. I hope I can come back for him.
