Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 – Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie. He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.  In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.  Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.  So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

A. Humbly Yield to God’s Mysterious Work in the World

1. We cannot fully comprehend or understand His Ways

Ecclesiastes 11:5, Isaiah 55:8-9, John 13:5-7

2. We must do God’s work with God’s Word by God’s way

Ecc.11:1, Ecc. 11:6, Isaiah 55:10-11, Acts 8:4-8, Acts 8:26-29

B. Sacrificially Invest in Sowing God’s Word

1. Be consistent in the sowing

Ecc. 11:16, 2 Timothy 1:3-5

2. Be diligent in the sowing

Ecc. 11:1, Ecc. 11:6, Deut. 6:4-9, John 9:4-5

3. Be mindful of the difficulties in the sowing

Ecc. 11:4, Ecc. 11:8, Job 14:1-2, John 16:33, Acts 14:21-22, Ps. 30:5, Ps. 126:6, 1 Cor. 15:58, Gal. 6:9