Heavenly Bread

AN AMAZING FACT: The fastest “bun” in the West goes to a team of bakers from Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery, who reclaimed the Guinness World Record in 1995. They harvested and milled wheat from the field and then mixed, scaled, shaped, and baked a loaf in exactly 8 minutes and 13 seconds.

Bread is a basic staple food in the diet of most every culture in the world. Each American consumes, on average, 53 pounds of bread per year. Assuming a sandwich was eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it would take 168 days to eat the amount of bread produced from one bushel of wheat. A family of four could live 10 years off the bread produced by one acre of wheat.

One bushel of wheat will produce 73 one-pound loaves of bread. It takes nine seconds for a combine to harvest enough wheat to make about 70 loaves of bread. In 1997, Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 36.5 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on Earth with six loaves of bread.

One day a crowd of people went looking for Jesus. The Lord had performed a miracle feeding a multitude with bread, and they wanted more. We, too, go searching for material blessings from God and miss the spiritual blessings He also intended. Jesus sought to correct their understanding of what He meant by “bread from heaven.” The crowd said, “Lord, give us this bread always.” Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:34, 35).

If you would know Christ, spiritual bread should be a basic staple of your daily diet. Take time every day to eat from the Word of God and you will never go hungry.

KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:2