Friday, June 3, 2022

WHOLE GRAIN BREAD ... GETTING SPIRITUAL ABOUT IT

 

No matter what State in the lower forty-eight our family of ten traveled, quoting Bible stories, and singing hymns, my mother baked whole wheat bread. The rented house might be humble, the kitchen old, but our mother’s bread baked in a discovered pan of some shape sent an aroma wafting in and around our “new home”. Suddenly there was a comforting sense of home.

It is obvious in the Bible that bread is important: it is a picture of Jesus, The Bread of Life. In the modern era bread is not like it used to be. No longer whole, the vitamins, minerals, protein and bran, are taken apart and sold separately. The vitamins and minerals are often bleached out. The three parts of the grain, so health building in the form it grew in, is separated: the endosperm is bleached, devaluing its nutrition. When the whole grain, in three major parts, the bran, endosperm and germ, are made into bread together the result is powerfully healthful.

Looking deeper, the three parts of the wheat illustrate the Godhead: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Whole grains are bran, endosperm, and germ.

God, who wrote the Bible gave us “The Bread of Life” who is Jesus. "In him was life," John 1:4. He feeds us spiritually, in our spirit, soul and body. God created bread, made as a healthy major food to feed us physically, to strengthen the heart, give vitamins and minerals, protein, and fiber. Major health food.

Psalm 104:15 “And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.” The heart as the most interior organ.

What is a Whole Grain? | The Whole Grains Council

https://wholegrainscouncil.org