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We all go through phases in life. Several of us have entered the same phase in life over the past few months with our families…
- This phase that has challenged
- our honesty,
- our health,
- our time & money,
- it’s taken up space in our house,
- it’s even challenged our marriage vows to a certain degree…”in sickness and in health, for better or worse.”
-Sourdough Bread-
- All jokes aside, with every phase and experience in our life there is always a lesson to learn.
- Just so everyone knows Ashley makes the BEST sourdough bread…now anyway!
When making bread:
- You can have the greatest recipe.
- Use the right ingredients and follow the directions perfectly.
- But if we aren’t feeding that starter daily, which is the base of the bread, then the bread is not going to come out right.
- It’s a living thing that needs to be fed everyday regardless of when we plan to use it.
- Sometimes Ashley will take a “bread break”, put it in the refrigerator and doesn’t plan to use it for a few days…
- It’s still living without being fed, for a while anyways, but it’s not as strong or good as it could be.
So how can we learn a spiritual lesson from sourdough bread?
We can say all the same things about our souls!
- We need to feed our souls daily with reading our Bible, with prayer, with fellowship if we want to be and remain strong Christians.
- Just because we know the recipe of salvation and have followed all the steps perfectly doesn’t mean that it just stops there.
- Our souls are living and need feeding daily!
- 2 Peter 3:17-18– “beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with error of the wicked; but grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
- Not reading the word daily can make us weak and unprepared for when wicked things creep into our lives.
Acts 17:11— “they searched the scriptures daily.”
1 Timothy 4:13– “till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.”
There are many verses in the Bible telling us to read it and use the scriptures every day.
There are verses we all know by heart and lean on all the time:
- 2 Timothy 3:16– “All scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and instruction in righteousness.”
- It’s useful for us and for others.
- 2 Timothy 2:15- “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
- God expects us to work hard in knowing the scriptures and understanding them so we can grow and can teach others.
- Hebrews 4:12- “For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword…and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Being in the word, reading daily, feeding our soul the knowledge of God through His inspired writers will keep our hearts and lives on the right path! It will help us grow closer to God and to be ready to teach others about Him.
As it says in Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4 “…man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” We need the meat of the word to keep our souls strong!
If you struggle with studying and being in the word, as I know I do and probably all of us do, then now is the time to make a change. Put out the distractions in life that keep you from it, try harder to read daily!