REVELATION:  THE ECOSYSTEM BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH    6/23/09

Prov 19:17 AMP

He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him. [Prov 28:27; Eccl 11:1; Matt 10:42; 25:40; 2 Cor 9:6-8; Heb 6:10.] 

REPAY – Hebrew

shalam

OT:7999 shalam (shaw-lam'); a primitive root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications):

KJV - make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-) pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace (-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper (-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, surely.

PIX:  Today as I pondered this scripture, I saw a living forest of perfectly balanced ecosystem.  I understood the principal that as the tree dies, it gives food for the bugs, which in turn give food for another creature.  Each and every life factor is dependant upon the functioning of something else.  It is like we breathe oxygen to live and expel carbon dioxide.  The plants breath our carbon dioxide to live and expel oxygen. 

ECOSYSTEM DEFINITION FROM THE WEB

An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms (biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all of the physical (abiotic) factors of the environment. An ecosystem is a unit of interdependent organisms which share the same habitat. Ecosystems usually form a number of food webs which show the interdependence of the organisms within the ecosystem.[1]

REVELATION:  I saw how this demonstrates the above scripture.  We partner with God in ministering life to those He loves.  As we do this, He repays, recompenses, restores, makes restitution to us to continue the same interdependent cycle of ministry between heaven and earth.

Matt 10:42 AMP

And whoever gives to one of these little ones [in rank or influence] even a cup of cold water because he is My disciple, surely I declare to you, he shall not lose his reward.

Matt 25:40 AMP

And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me. [Prov 19:17.] 

2 Cor 9:6 AMP

[Remember] this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings.

Heb 6:10 AMP

For God is not unrighteous to forget or overlook your labor and the love which you have shown for His name's sake in ministering to the needs of the saints (His own consecrated people), as you still do.