6/26/18 THE BEGINNING AND THE END

PARABLE:  Today as I sat with the Lord for my morning toast and devotions I saw that it was His Word.  I was on the last of my loaf of bread.  I never eat the heels, I always throw them out.  For some strange reason, I decided to eat the end piece this morning.  I bought 2 new loafs this week and while my heel was toasting, I went to the freezer to put one out on the counter to unthaw.  After breakfast I turned to this W2P! 

THE LAST LOAF

Broken and facing a multitude of what feels like the whole world’s needs, you may think you are on your last loaf.  Always remember I ask you to give what you DO have, not what you don’t have.  Simply offer your broken bread to Me, and  I will bless it and multiply it for a great harvest with plenty leftover.

What you don’t know is that what appears to be your last loaf is really your first.  It is not the end, but the beginning of new bread from heaven.  What you also have in storage is a double portion of grain.  This grain can be ground into flour for fresh bread.  Rejoice, sit and eat.

Mark 6:38-44 NKJV

But He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”  And when they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”  Then He commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in ranks, in hundreds and in fifties. And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves , and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fish He divided among them all. So they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of the fish. Now those who had eaten the loaves were about five thousand men.

After reading this W2P and feeling encouraged that I am not done, but beginning a new season of bread, I went to the www to find out how to spell heel.  This paragraph was so quickened to me!

FROM WWW:  It's true — eaten as is, the heel certainly doesn't prove as soft and enjoyable as those middle slices, but that's okay. Like any good story, a loaf of bread needs a beginning and an end. The heel of any loaf of bread does its best work not on its own, but when transformed or used as an ingredient in other recipes.

Jesus is the beginning and the end!  Everything starts and ends with Him.

Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

CONFIRMATION THE BREAD OF LIFE

After having my toast, I turned with anointed hands to John 6 about Jesus being the Bread of Life!

John 6:31-35 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.

QUICKENED PASSAGE – TOILING FOR THE WORKS OF GOD

Jesus challenged them for seeking him only to fill their stomachs when He wanted to draw them with the miracle.  They understood this by asking what they should do to work the works of God.  Jesus responded that the works of God is to BELIEVE on Him.

John 6:28-29 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.

WORKS

ἔργον érgon, er'-gon

from a primary (but obsolete) ἔργω érgō (to work); toil (as an effort or occupation); by implication, an act:—deed, doing, labour, work.

neuter noun

As I read the meaning of works and the toil it takes to believe, in my mind’s eye I saw me flapping my wings in order to be lifted up and fly.  Flying represents faith – to be lifted up above the gravity of circumstances and to be carried beyond them.  Faith is believing in God irregardless of what we experience with our senses.  They were willing to believe only if their senses experienced what they trusted in.  When we BELIEVE God, no matter the circumstances, we KNOW He is Sovereign, and has all the details of our lives working together for good. 

Our lives are wrapped up in Him, the Beginning and the End.  What He begins in our lives He will finish and then He begins again with a new season.  Sometimes it makes us feel insecure when we see the old passing away and haven’t yet settled into the new season.  However when we put our faith in HIM, we are secure because we know we will never run out of bread because He is our Bread! 

John 6:30-35 They said therefore unto him, What sign do you show then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.