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                                ‘The Loaf of Bread’

When you think about it our lives could be compared to a loaf of bread. The bible has also used the analogy of the potter and the clay. The bible mentions that we are like clay in the hands of the potter. We can be molded and made in to something beautiful if we allow our selves to be molded to perfection by the master’s hand. Think of the breads we eat. They begin as a big lump of paste like dough. If left in this condition it will not be any good for anything, and eventually would spoil.

The proper term used to work the dough and prepare it for what it is to become is called kneading it. When kneading is done with loving hands, it can be changed (in most cases) to something delicious to eat. We must not overlook the other process that must take place for this dough to turn into something good to eat. It must be subjected to a high degree of heat to attain its desired potential. The heat is the part of the molding process we often do not like. We are very uncomfortable sometimes with the amount of heat that God has to apply to mold us into what He wants us to become. Like the bread we too must be needed to enrich our lives. Perhaps we enjoy being left to our selves for a short time but there comes a time when we want to be needed and like the bread, this must happen before we will be of good use to anyone. Serving God and our fellow man in good deeds is what we were created for, to be useful and needed. We cannot just be self-serving; if we want to be like Jesus we must serve others. That alone can often cause us to feel as if we are in an oven being baked. But if we allow the molding or baking to take place we are apt to become what God wants us to be.

                      Pastor Brinson     02-05-12       ©2012