Have you ever wondered why of all foods, He chose to be called Bread (of Life).
He calls His body "bread" and He refers to bread as His body.
Why bread and not rice? Or even corn?
If yes, I wondered too and here's what I found out in the process. 👇
Bread is food. Food gives us strength. we cannot do without food. Or say there is only so much we can do and so far we can go without food. Food is life.
Jesus is food to our soul. He gives us the strength we need (see Phillipians 4:13).
There's only so much and so far you can go in life without His help. Jesus is life. (John 14:6).
Bread.
How is bread prepared?
Bread is made from flour and other ingredients mixed together. Flour itself is a product of grains of wheat broken and crushed after which it is baked in fire before it is consumed.
Jesus was bruised and "crushed". He passed through fire (suffering on the cross) before He could officially become food to our hungry souls.
That's why during His last supper with His disciples, He broke bread, and gave his disciples to take and eat.
It was significant.
Why bread?
The breaking of bread signifies all He'd go through on the cross. How His body would be battered and beaten.
The giving of bread to his disciples depicts how He gave himself for the world and how He is ever standing, reaching out to the world to "take and eat" and be filled.
The taking of the bread by the disciples shows how we by faith, should receive and accept what Christ is offering us (salvation). His grace is sufficient, His promises are Yea and Amen. But first, we have to accept what He is giving us.
For a gift to be yours, you must first take it from who is giving it.
The eating of the bread explains how we must feast on Jesus (the word) so we can be filled, grow and be nourished.
feast on the bread and drink from the well of life that you won't thirst again.
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So when next people tell you bread is not healthy or good for the body, tell them "No fam! Jesus is the bread of life and if Jesus is bread, then Bread is healthy and good for my body."
And for the fitfam folks, Bread is a carbohydrate we know. But Jesus is Bread and so, Jesus is carbohydrate. We can't run from Carbohydrates.
There is a reason He created and allowed Carbohydrates to exist on earth and I'm not ready to let Him down.
Enjoy the rest of the week and do not stop eating bread.
