For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
11 Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. NLT
The Lord will provide.
He is the One who superintends the entire process that gets bread on to our tables, and into our stomachs. The farmer plays his part, of course, but he/she would have no seed to sow apart from the Lord’s generous provision. Where does the seed come from? Well, some will give a quite legitimate scientific explanation, describing biological processes and so on. But behind it all, and over it all, there stands the Lord, the life-giver. He it is who also provides us with financial ”seed” to sow for the benefit of others (see vv.6-9).
But the Lord will also increase what we have, so that we may give more. We do not need to be shy about the Biblical principle that the Lord regularly enlarges the store of those who give. But neither should we miss the point that we are not blessed for selfish hoarding, but for generous sharing.
He who gives the seed to the sower and turns that seed into bread to eat, will give you the seed of generosity to sow, and, for harvest, the satisfying bread of good deeds well done. The more you are enriched by God the more scope there will be for generous giving… J.B.Phillips
This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away…The Message
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