The
temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God
is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand.
When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
1 Corinthians 10:13
Look at this
scripture in context.
I don't want you to forget, dear brothers and
sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were
guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the
sea on dry ground. In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as
followers of Moses. All of them ate the same spiritual food, and all of them
drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that
traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. Yet God was not pleased with most
of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. These things
happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they
did, or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, "The
people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan
revelry." And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did,
causing 23,000 of them to die in one day. Nor should we put Christ to the test,
as some of them did and then died from snakebites. And don't grumble as some of
them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. These things happened
to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the
end of the age. If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall.
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And
God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can
stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
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| Our Father in Heaven...lead us not into temptation. |
Temptation.
We all face it. We all have choices to make. Do we flee from that temptation…or
do we give into the temptation? There is no in-between choice, although we can
pray as Jesus taught His disciples…
Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven
those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us
from the evil one. Matthew
6:9-13
Prayer
~ Lord… My sacrifice to You is my broken spirit and repentant heart. Please
bless the food that I eat…the physical and spiritual food. May I remember that
You are the Bread of Life. Your body is represented by bread…broken for the sin
in my life. Thank you for Your sacrifice for me—and your promise that you will
show us a way out of temptation.
Friday’s
Feast at the King’s Table
Bread is mentioned 228 times in the New
Living Translation of the Bible. Bread is important to life…all through the Old
and New Testaments…and even today. Whole grain breads that contain seeds like
pumpkin, flax and sunflower seeds are my healthy favorites, although I
personally don’t eat much bread as the gluten tends to give me an arthritis
ache in my hands. I have found that lower gluten or no gluten grains like brown
rice, oatmeal, rye or quinoa are much healthier for me. No pain is a gain. This
is one of those things that each person has to discover for themselves. I went
on a 21-day no gluten, no dairy, no sugar diet and then added gluten products
back in slowly, followed by a reintroduction of dairy products into my diet to
see what affected me. Sugar is like poison so I tried for a while to totally
avoid it. It is too much a part of the American diet—my diet—to totally
eliminate it. But a way of eating that includes no sugar does have a great
benefit in being healthier and providing more energy. Can you even make bread
without sugar in some form? Yes. Even unleavened bread does not have to have
sugar, but yeast bread needs the sugar for the yeast to develop the gas that
makes it rise. Jesus and His disciples were eating yeast free…unleavened bread
at the beginning…the first day of Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread meal
(Mark 14:12).
We are reminded that sin is like yeast…
Get rid of the old "yeast" by
removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch
of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover
Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. So let us celebrate the festival, not with
the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and
truth. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
New bread of sincerity and truth. That
sounds like something we could all use. In the meantime, here’s a recipe for
unleavened bread…with no sugar and of course, no yeast.
UNLEAVENED BREAD
Preheat oven to 475 degrees prior to mixing ingredients
2 cups of flour (I used a gluten free flour blend)
1 teaspoons of salt
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1/2 cup of warm water (or more if needed added gradually)
1 teaspoons of salt
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1/2 cup of warm water (or more if needed added gradually)
In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Stir in olive oil with a
fork. Gradually add water until you have a nice soft dough. Then pinch of
pieces of dough and either roll or pat them into a circle. Poke the breads with
a fork. You can then drizzle with additional oil if you like. Add herbs of your
choice for variety. Bake for 3-5 minutes.
Adapted from…http://www.eliyah.com/recipes.html
Margaret Feinberg, author of Taste and
See, stresses in her chapter on bread that true unleavened bread needs to
be baked within 18 minutes of adding the water to the flour. Bread is the basic
food for people all around the world…all throughout time. Truly unleavened
bread will rise if it is allowed to sit more than 18 minutes. So, if you are
trying to make unleavened bread you must work quickly and be ready to take the
bread OUT of the oven within the 18 minute time limit. Ms. Feinberg’s favorite
recipe uses only flour and water. You can check out her recipes in her book
available on her website. https://margaretfeinberg.com/tasteandsee/
Daily
Bible Reading: 2 Kings 12-13; 2 Chronicles
24
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photo by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless otherwise noted.
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