A Better Bread

While gluten is often demonized, we still crave bread that tastes exactly the way we remember it. We long for chewy layers of airy euphoric bliss. So how can we have our cake and eat it too? Or I should say, how can we have our gluten and eat it too?

The fact is gluten is pleasurable for a time, but then no more. We might long for the bread of Egypt but lets not romanticize it. Gluten kept up captive to a life of pain. The same way alcohol seems pleasurable for a time until the hang-over sets in. Or the same way sin seems pleasurable but always comes back with a consequence.

“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts... for sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.” (Romans 5: 12-14)

The facts is eating is a necessity and even a pleasure but it is not life. What is life? Jesus Christ, the son of God who is God says “I am the bread of life.” (John 6:51) So Christian's worship a loaf of bread? Haha, no. If humans are clever enough to use analogies certainly God, the maker of the heavens and the earth and all that is within it, is clever enough to use analogies too. Makes sense, huh.

Jesus continues to address the Jewish community by saying “I the the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is,” he is now referring to himself analogously, “the bread that came down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread also which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Jesus is the only bread that will never leave you hungry; never leave you with indigestion; never cause inflammation or any celiac symptoms. Jesus the bread of life is painless.

So if Jesus is the best bread ever, how do I eat His flesh?

“The Jews therefore began to argue with one another, saying 'How can this can give us His flesh to eat?' Jesus therefore said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood abides in Me, and I in Him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers are, and died, he who eats this bread shall live forever.”

“Many therefore of His disciples when they head this said, 'This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?' But Jesus conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, 'Does this cause you to stumble?'”

What does bread do? Bread sustains you. Therefore, Jesus is saying 'I am the sustainer of your life.' Now does bread just jump in you mouth and wiggle down you gullet with by itself? Haha, I would frightened if it did!!! So what can we infer here in the scriptures? What is Jesus bread analogy saying to us?

Earlier on in the book we find Jesus talking to a secret disciple. He came to Jesus, but he came in the cover of the night. He was worried what his friends would say if they knew he was a follower of Jesus.

Jesus says “...whoever believes may in Him have eternal life. For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. And this is the judgment, that the light (again an analogy for Jesus) is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

Do ever sneak a nibble of gluten in a quite and dark corner? You probably did so because you knew gluten was bad for you and did not want to be exposed for cheating on your diet. The Bible says that we do the same with our sins, we don't want your sins to be seen because already know they are wrong.

Have you ever meet someone who is so depressed that by default and rather than choose to be happy they seek to drag everyone else down to depression with them? Well, I have news for you that is exactly what the devil, Satan does. He knows there is no hope for him he was damned for seeking to be worshipped like God. Immediately after that the first thing he did was deceive Adam and Eve in the perfect garden of Eden (Genesis 2). If he was going to rot in Hell for the rest of time he wanted to be dead sure he wasn't alone. And so he caused Adam and Eve to sin (rebel against God). Since then we have inherited a disposition to sin called the sin of nature. However, God sent his only Son, Jesus Christ who was sinless to take on the sins of the world. He died for all of humanities sins. And then three days later he rose again, and ascended to Heaven sinless. If we except Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We he eat of His bread and drink of His blood (the sacrifice of this body), believe in His resurrection power and follow Him. He will adopt us out of the damned sinly inheritance of Adam and Eve and into adoption as sons and daughters of the Most High God.

Jesus it saying, He who comes to me who, co-works with me, I will sustain for all eternity.

Paul, the writer of the book of Romans, says, “the wages of sin are death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

I pray you consider the bread of life today. If you are still not sure. Please leave a comment below and take a half hour to read this free copy of the Gospel of John a first hand account written by one of Jesus disciples about the real life of Jesus Christ and his mission on earth. Why Jesus died the most horrendous death for you that you may have life, and may have it more abundantly.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1-21&version=ESV

www.passionforlord.com/2011/02/free-gospel-of-john-booklet.html