Act: Grow

... so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty ...

 - From Isaiah 55

God's Word, and His plan, is compared here, to the water cycle. As rain comes down, fulfilling the essential purpose of watering the earth, and then returns to the sky in the form of clouds, thus beginning the cycle once again; so does God's Word go forth, and it returns back to Him . . . but only after accomplishing it's task.

God's plan is secure and reliable. It is not our plan. And, as a cycle, it tells us that, really, the way things always have been, is the way they always shall be. Except that the purpose of God's Word, is to fulfill His promise and one day, to make all things right, and bring them back into harmony with the universe and its Creator. 

God's Word is like an investment in an ever-growing stock market. He casts it out, upon the water. It comes back greater than it went out. It keeps growing, and gets a larger return, each time.

God's Word confirms the natural way of things. You go and build relationships and businesses, that grow. That's the point. Our work and our mission is to go out, and to expect something larger, or greater, to return. It's only natural.

Just this week, I learned that you can't sit around and hope things to get better. You have to work things to get better. Your business, or your ministry, will not grow unless you do something.

We came up with a learning point for my non-profit: "The way to make things happen, is to make things happen." Activity always yields some kind of result. For the believer, that simply means that, acting on faith, you can be sure God will increase it. But you have to act.

God spoke His word, and things happened. Some of us don't even do that much. Don't make people guess what you're up to. State your point, and then act.