Seeds and Bread

Well, hello! It’s been a little while since I have had a chance to blog but today is the day! I’ve missed you.

As I was purging clutter yesterday (actually, as I was digging deeply in my home – searching frantically for my passport from 20+ years ago), I came across an old journal…. I was fascinated as I perused it this morning to discover that the idea of “Remember, Celebrate, Trust” was from all the way back in July of 2013!

Allow me to share my thoughts from July 11, 2013…because they could basically be today’s entry:

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“Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.”  2 Corinthians 9:10-11 NASB

Lord, I need You. I’m tired. I’m feeling overwhelmed with the day ahead of me. Please help me to see You as my Provider of seed and bread. Bread is for today, and seed is for tomorrow and beyond. I can’t eat seed {guess I hadn’t heard of eating seeds back in the day} and I can’t plant bread so You provide for both now and the future.

Has God taken care of you thus far, Lisa? Are you still living in your home? Do you still have clothes? Do you have food? Do you have “stuff” in your house? Too much stuff, in fact!

Remember.  Remember God’s faithfulness.  Celebrate.  Celebrate the victories thus far, and trust God for today and tomorrow.

Remember. Celebrate. Trust. Remember. Celebrate. Trust. Remember. Celebrate. Trust.

Remember.

“Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…”.  Ecclesiastes 12:1 NASB

Celebrate.

“Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works… Enjoy life with the [man] whom you love all the days of your fleeting life under the sun; for this is your reward in life, and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.”  Ecclesiastes 9:7,9 NASB

Trust.

“I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely.”  Psalm 16:8-9 NASB

“In the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I have put my trust without fear, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?”  Psalm 57:9-11 NASB

Trust without fear.

God is for me.

I shall not be afraid.

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Amen!

The context at the time was that I was preparing a transcript for my oldest to begin dual-enrollment at the local community college during high school, and I was fretting. Fast forward – my oldest is graduating with a finance degree in May, and thankfully already has a job lined up; my middle is successfully finishing his second year of college; and we leave in just a few hours to take our youngest on college visits in Virginia and South Carolina…. Yay, God!

God is faithful. I will trust Him without fear. He is for me. And YOU!!!

May you be encouraged, and may you and yours have a very blessed Easter. He is alive!

Lisa Toth

Remember. Celebrate. Trust.