Nose awakening homemade bread! What a comfort! So wafted away the Saturdays of my youth in the little town of Blessing, Texas. Saturday, the day grandson crock churned sweet cream to butter. Saturday, the day Grandma Smith bake bread. Bake bread in the oven of a cast iron wood burning stove, then set it to cool upon old oaken kitchen table. What comfort, that fragrant fresh baked homemade bread! Grandma love baked in every loaf. Comfort food indeed!
More than a few years earlier in a land faraway, lay the little town of Bethlehem. A humble little town amid hills of sheep and fields of grain. A little town where grain twas ground; where bread twas bake. Bethlehem, the little town whose very name means House of Bread.
Of celestial comfort, the babe born in Bethlehem, born in a stable, wrapped in swaddling cloths, laid in a manger, a feed trough where livestock ate hay and grain. Christ Jesus, the Wonder of Wonders, our Redeemer, our Savior, the Bread of Life laid in a manger. Where had lain grain now lay bread. Humble bread in a humble manger that all the humble of heart, who eat thereof, inherit a seat at the wedding banquet of Jesus in Heaven. The very love and grace of God the Father brought forth to earth in a lowly, yet precious manger, that sheep and donkeys and goats and maybe even camels had eaten grain from. The manger now overflowing with the pure Bread of life, Emmanuel, God with us. The manger, where all that eat thereof, eat of GOD. (Luke Chapters 1 & 2)
Jesus speaks in John 6:33,47,48,51 KJ, "The bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 47)Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 48)I am that bread of life. 51)I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
So much for such a humble little manger to hold... that grace of God the Father, His very Son brought forth to earth as holy bread in a manger; that folks like sheep (the helpless), and folks like donkeys (the stubborn), and folks like goats (the ornery), and maybe even folks like camels (spitty complainers): might repent and eat of the Bread of life."
God loves you
Eat of the Bread of Life
Bread of the spirit
...Jesus...
Comfort Food Indeed
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Bread the staff of life... Love how you have woven that connection through the ages :0
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