Excerpt” from (http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Sermons/Cast%20your%20bread%20upon%20the%20water.htm)
(Eccl 11:1-6 NIV) Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. {2} Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. {3} If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie. {4} Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. {5} As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. {6} Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
(Eccl 1-1 NIV) Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
Some years ago we had many raccoons visiting us at our barn where we stored corn. No, it was not one raccoon, there were many raccoons! So we bought a trap, and we caught raccoon after raccoon. We then took them several miles away to the woods and released them.
Several weeks later I saw raccoons again in the barn and wouldn’t you know I recognized one of them by his distinctive color. So, that night I caught another one and this time I spray painted him with a bright red color on his back. I let him out about six miles from our farm. . .and then some time later I saw him in my barn again.
As with the raccoon we as humans will bring actions upon ourselves in whatever we do (Good or Bad) and it will return in one form or another. The “bread which we will cast, will come back to us.”
When I was in Beijing, China in 1998, I was standing in front of a large Hotel in the morning. The city was engulfed in deep smog. People wore white masks or wet handkerchiefs over their mouth to protect their lungs from the polluted air. As I was inhaling the morning air I felt like I was smoking a Pall-Mall without filter. I asked a Chinese friend why Chinese people do not do anything against the pollution and his answer surprised me: “As Americans came, they promised us prosperity if we produce cheap merchandise for them. Yes, we have climbed the economic ladder and very few of us even became very rich. But we have to produce cheap! And cheap production comes with consequences.”
I was quick to reply: “But you are damaging yourself and your country. . .” I was not able to finish the sentence as he quietly said: “Don’t worry the cloud of pollution will reach your country as well.” _____________________________________________________
He was right, in one sense. The pollution is here, unfortunately, it has taken the form of spiritual pollution. In China the pollution is enviromental, but the people have a hunger for God' Word, I know because our youth group, goes to China regularly to sneak Bibles in, and the demand for God's Word is huge. As a Nation we still hunger, but we're feeding ourselves the pollution of the world, which never satisfies.