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Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days (Ecc 11:1).
“Every man must labor to be a blessing to that place where the providence of God casts him. Wherever we are, we may find good work to do, if we have but hearts to do it. If we magnify every little difficulty, start objections, and fancy hardships, we shall never go on, much less go through with our work.” - Benson
Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season, in God's time, you shall reap, (Gal 6:9).
Are there setbacks to one’s original resolve, query or quest for reaping a return? Benson’s opening attention to responsibility sets a tone of engagement in what God brings our way. The only setback to the above would be a pattern of negligence.
Today, we have the option of “casting all our care upon Him”. Where our “labor” comes in is that which He leads us onward individually to function in. Today’s setback to V-9 is trying to undermine the abilities He grants to others equipped in other matters to perform His will. What other matters?
We have concerns inside the Church at varying degrees of interest (“desires of the heart”). Some are more universal than others. Desires for the lost, the furtherance of the Gospel, the growth of the flock and the many degrees of discipleship all the while, maintaining a constant guard against divisions.
But the above marks the end of our journey as the Body of Christ which came to be known “as one”. For some Christians are incensed that other brothers would take the merits of doctrine to the world outside the confines of the physical BOC. Does the Father equip wrongly? True, “My kingdom is not of this world” does not cancel the fact Him calling the world “yours” (1 Cor 3:22). We are to be "of the same mind", not ability.
‘Another dispensation’? Don’t even, these points from the NT are in the current place and time wherever and whenever you see them (1Cor 6:3).