…more than what we need; to be shared with others.
Matthew 14:5 loaves and 2 fish for 5000 men + women & children –> 12 baskets leftover
Matthew 15:7 loaves and a few small fish for 4000 men + women & children –> 7 baskets leftover
John 2 – The Wedding at Cana – 6 stone water jars which each held about 20-30 gallons, filled to the brim –> the best wine. Was that wine just for the bride & groom and their family. Did it not also provide for the guests? Was the miracle just for the family to save face? Just for an individual or a family? Did not everyone there benefit from the miracle, receive from the miracle? The Bible does not specifically say, but do you suppose there was wine leftover? Perhaps for the new bride & groom starting their new life?
Matthew 13:8, 23 “other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
The fruit of the Word in our life is meant to be a blessing to others.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29 “at the end of three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it within your towns. And the Levite because he has no portion or inheritance with you, AND the sojourner, AND the fatherless, AND the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.” (emphasis my own.)
Leviticus 19:9-10 “when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner. I am the LORD your God.” (Ruth’s story)
God designed it in the law that we always consider the less fortunate and plan to share what we have.
Ephesians 3:20 “now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”
God is an extravagant God. All He does is in abundance. Just look at creation!