(Ecclesiastes 11:1-2) 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.
Most merciful God, as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are Your ways higher than ours. You are perfect, but You are no perfectionist; You are just and merciful and neither at the expense of the other; You demand everything of us, and everything You demand You are pleased to give us freely as a gift. Forgive us dear Lord…
For unlike You we are the very picture of miserliness, stinginess and greed. The love, blessing and joy that You share within the holy Trinity is continually spilling out onto others. You are the ultimate “cheerful giver” and are always and only too glad to give, even at great cost to Yourself. But unlike You, we have not “cast our bread upon the waters.” Fearing want and deprivation, we have hoarded divine blessings to ourselves. And doubting the inexhaustible abundance of Your supply we have determined to stockpile and accumulate, rather than pass-on and allocate the mercies, gifts and provisions that You daily pour into our lives. Lord have mercy upon us…
And hear us now as we confess our particular sins to You...
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