Whole Grain Baking - Sue Gregg Cookbooks

Yet, there is a separation between human beings and God ever since
Eve deliberately chose to defy his instructions by eating and serving the
wrong food. Just imagine that he chose a food issue to test man's
obedience to himself--so homely, so every-day! Adam and Eve suffered
the consequences of that choice--separation from his fellowship and
death, both physical and spiritual. They chose to make their decisions
about life independently of God, and that was exactly what I had been
doing!
No one had ever explained to me that I was spiritually dead or that
the purpose of God, the Son, becoming flesh was not just to identify
with my human situation alone. He took the death penalty on himself,
to pay the price for my rebellion, that is my independence from God,
and to restore a fellowship relationship with himself. Imagine, the
eternal, living, personal God taking my death sentence upon himself!
Thus I discovered it is not possible to honor God or to know him apart
from Jesus. I learned that receiving God, the Son, Jesus Christ, was
receiving the Father as well. I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me,
you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him
and have seen him...Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father
(John 14:6-7, 9).
I gave my life to Jesus Christ. Yet to all who received him, to those
who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
(John 1:12). It was the beginning of a transformed life. ...if anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
All this is from God....God made him who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians
5:17, 21).
"I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry...I
am the living bread that came down from heaven. If a man eats of this
bread, he will live forever" (John 6:35, 51). This is Jesus' astounding
offer to "whosoever" believes in him (John 3:16).
This is the living bread that you may eat
of and not die, the central message God
desires to make known to us even as
reflected in and made known through
our daily bread (Romans 1:20; Jeremiah
15:16).
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