These pictures are making me hungry! Beautiful job on the bread Susan. I also love the spiritual lessons. Using ordinary everyday things, Jesus taught beautiful spiritual truths (mustard seeds, sparrows, bread, vines, etc.). We can find biblical truth in just about anything if we keep our eyes open to it.
I enjoy that you draw analogies from the relationship of the baker and the bread to how God might be relating to us...through making the starter, getting mixed into bread, getting kneaded and squishes, getting shaped and baked--what seems to us a pretty intense process!--to ultimately turn us into something we might never have imagined when we were but a tablespoon of flour.
Well said, my friend. I tend to hear His voice when I am doing something like this, and I am thankful. Probably my farm roots, but working with my hands and creating something often becomes a time of communion with Him.
I imagine that silence is also a component of the process. Hard to listen if there's a lot of extraneous noise or chatter, especially from our own mouths. :)
I baked my second loaf this evening. It's delicious but also a creative outlet. I think I'm going to really enjoy baking sourdough bread, rolls, pizza dough, and making some blueberry sourdough pancakes.
Looks great. I have some sourdough in the works today. I love that when I have just about nothing else in my house to eat I can bake up a beautiful loaf. Makes me think of what great things God can do with the very little we have to offer him.
John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”
35 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 really like reading about Old Testament theophanies, or foreshadowing of Christ. The priest according to the order of Malchizedek is one example. The commander of the Lord’s armies is another. Since Jesus is God and as the Logos, He co-created everything.
And after his actions in Genesis, God did not put him on a shelf to wait for His birth. In the KJV & NKJV, Nebuchadnezzar sees a fourth man inside the fiery furnace, “who looks as like the son of God”, in Daniel.
Check out Proverbs 30:4.
1 Corinthians 10: 4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
Susan, I love this post and all the notes you shared today about this. It is on my desire to do list in the months ahead to bake sourdough from starter. Your post is once again, as sweet blessing to me and perfectly timed. 🥹
So glad. I agree. It’s a special process and God speaks to our hearts as we allow Him to create through our lives. I’m grateful for His Presence and love, and how He feeds us.
For man doth not live by bread, alone, but by every….
These pictures are making me hungry! Beautiful job on the bread Susan. I also love the spiritual lessons. Using ordinary everyday things, Jesus taught beautiful spiritual truths (mustard seeds, sparrows, bread, vines, etc.). We can find biblical truth in just about anything if we keep our eyes open to it.
I enjoy that you draw analogies from the relationship of the baker and the bread to how God might be relating to us...through making the starter, getting mixed into bread, getting kneaded and squishes, getting shaped and baked--what seems to us a pretty intense process!--to ultimately turn us into something we might never have imagined when we were but a tablespoon of flour.
Well said, my friend. I tend to hear His voice when I am doing something like this, and I am thankful. Probably my farm roots, but working with my hands and creating something often becomes a time of communion with Him.
I imagine that silence is also a component of the process. Hard to listen if there's a lot of extraneous noise or chatter, especially from our own mouths. :)
Wonderful analogy and look at that bread! yum 😋
I baked my second loaf this evening. It's delicious but also a creative outlet. I think I'm going to really enjoy baking sourdough bread, rolls, pizza dough, and making some blueberry sourdough pancakes.
Our daughter is very much into this! It's wonderful 🙌🏻
Great!
Looks great. I have some sourdough in the works today. I love that when I have just about nothing else in my house to eat I can bake up a beautiful loaf. Makes me think of what great things God can do with the very little we have to offer him.
Beautiful. I agree. And your remark brings to mind loaves and fish multiplied.
John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”
35 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.
Thank you, Phil. I was reflecting on these verses as we made the sourdough. His bread gives life!!
There was the pre-incarnate Jesus, for which we see glimpses in the OT & leading up to his incarnation at Bethlehem.
I really like reading about Old Testament theophanies, or foreshadowing of Christ. The priest according to the order of Malchizedek is one example. The commander of the Lord’s armies is another. Since Jesus is God and as the Logos, He co-created everything.
And after his actions in Genesis, God did not put him on a shelf to wait for His birth. In the KJV & NKJV, Nebuchadnezzar sees a fourth man inside the fiery furnace, “who looks as like the son of God”, in Daniel.
Check out Proverbs 30:4.
1 Corinthians 10: 4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
Yes. Thanks! I agree. It’s amazing and powerful to study these passages.
Susan, I love this post and all the notes you shared today about this. It is on my desire to do list in the months ahead to bake sourdough from starter. Your post is once again, as sweet blessing to me and perfectly timed. 🥹
So thankful this blessed you. Enjoy the Bread of Life today, dear sister!
I love this post! Making bread from scratch fills us with awe and wonder of God.
So glad. I agree. It’s a special process and God speaks to our hearts as we allow Him to create through our lives. I’m grateful for His Presence and love, and how He feeds us.
Wish you lived close by, I’d slice some for you. What a fitting verse. Thanks, Wendy May! God bless you.