Beggars and Bread

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An Aroma From the Oven

October 10, 2007 Ken Leave a comment
SO FAR IN MY LIFE, NO ONE has ever said to me, “I just can’t stand the smell of home-made bread baking.”
Of the many aromas we human beings encounter in life, this one rates right up there. Each of us has his or her personal list of most-pleasant aromas or scents, of course.
Mine would include lilac and lavender, jasmine and honeysuckle, fresh-cut sawdust and new-mown hay, cinnamon rolls, freesia and fresh mint, sandalwood incense, the salty ocean breeze, roses, maple syrup, the air after a quick rain on dusty ground, the smell of rubber in a tire store (probably a guy thing), a smoky campfire, an evergreen forest, and apple-spice—for starters.
But the aroma of home-made bread, for sure, is one that most everybody has on their list of favorites.
Home-made bread. The “staff of life.” Wholesome, natural, filled with good stuff. And when you’re hungry—nothing better.
Beggars—and bread. Let’s be clear from the outset what the bread is.
It’s not morality or theology or ecclesiology or psychology or any other “ology” (though all of these can be related to what bread really is.
Bread is what you find in John 6:
And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. . . . I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.” Verses 35, 51, NKJV.
I’d like to suggest that God put an inborn hunger for this Bread into each of us. We can ignore that hunger, of course. Or we can try to satisfy it with something else. But it’s there, that hunger.
When you eat store-bought bread—filled with all those nutritious additives and preservatives and dough conditioners and who knows what—it’s just not the same as the real thing: fresh home-made bread.
And nothing can take the place of the real Bread of life: Jesus. Nothing else can satisfy that inborn spiritual hunger as He does.
What you find of the Bread, please share. I’ll do the same.
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