Faith Words: Aroma

It’s bread week on The Great British Baking Show. Breadsticks with a snap. English muffins with lots of air holes inside. Bread formed into unusual shapes, with unique flavor combinations. 

The keys to successful bread? A good prove and a good bake.  If the prove is too short, the bread won’t reach the correct height. If the prove is too long, it loses its structure and collapses.  If it’s baked at too low a temperature or too short a time, the color will be too pale and the bread will be raw.  Too high a temperature or for too long, the crust will burn.

God designs us. He shapes us. He proves us. He tests us. He know just what we need to achieve the results He designed for us. As master of all things, God knows just how much heat we can stand and He provides a way out of our trials.

Bakers often brush their loaves with an egg wash to make them shine.  God washes me, too, so I can shine for His glory. 

We may not be perfect but we’re exactly what God knew we would be. Filled, shaped and baked to please Him.

I think God loves the smell of bread baking.

Patrice

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭2:15‬ ‭NIV‬‬

For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.