S2. E26. Bread of the Presence (Exodus 25:23-30)
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[00:00:00] instead of seeing bread as this experience where we, our failures for eating this and we're unhealthy, could we see this where actually eating bread is a holy and sacred experience, one that you're sharing with God, even if you're just having your morning toast.
Hello. Hello. Welcome back to your Daily Bread podcast. I am very pumped for this episode and I just know that this will be so healing to so [00:01:00] many people listening in diet culture. Carbs are. just teamed as bad and as the enemy, but we have one enemy. Y'all it. It is not bread. Jesus himself ate carbs.
And if there's a part of you that has a fear of eating bread or too many carbs, and for years you've been following low carb diets or getting lower carb options, I pray that this episode will be so healing for you and get you to see bread and eating carbs differently. Father God, thank you for this day.
Lord, we praise you and thank you that your mercies are new every day. Lord, your word says in Romans 12, 1, 2, that you will come in and renew our mind and allowing you to do that. Offering our bodies to you as a living sacrifice is our true and proper worship and our way to discern your good, pleasing, and perfect will Lord.
So I pray that this episode renews people's minds and that people are able to receive into their heart the truth that your word brings and the truth of. Everything that you are, [00:02:00] Lord, you have not called this to a spirit of fear so I just pray that this episode helps to cast out and bind up any fear that we have so that it can be cast out.
In Jesus' name we pray a me.
I'm gonna be reading from Exodus 25 versus 23 to 30, and this is when Moses is getting instructions to prepare the table. Make a temple of acacia wood, two qubits long, a qubit wide and a qubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. Also, make around its rim a hand breath wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners where the four legs are. The rings are to be close to the rim and hold the poles to it, carrying the table, make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold, and carry the table with them and make [00:03:00] its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
Put the bread of the presence on this table to be before me at all times. I. Love this verse because number one, it shows just how intricately God made and wanted his temple to be and how specific he was with the directions. And if we are temples of the Holy Spirit, how much more intricately. And uniquely and intentionally designed are we?
I think so often in the Old Testament, we speed past verses like this, but I think we need to slow down and really read them and be like, wow, like really receive into our heart. If God puts so much effort in the directions and building of literally a table, how much more intricately and with intention and thought and beauty did he make me?
And he ends with verse 30, put the bread of the [00:04:00] presence on this table to be before me at all times. And we see in the New Testament that Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never grow hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. And we see at the Last Supper Jesus took the bread.
And when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, take and eat. This is my body.
And we know that he says, do this in remembrance of me whenever we take communion and talking about these truths has really helped clients work through their food fears around bread and eating carbs, sometimes more so than, oh, Jesus ate carbs. Like we know that he did and we know that he ate bread, but I think sometimes.
This can be even more powerful. It's like, oh no, no. Jesus is in the bread that you are eating. This is the bread of the [00:05:00] presence. And when Jesus held the communion up and he ate the bread and asked the disciples to eat the bread, the last supper, do this in remembrance of me. You are ingesting the bread.
We have the bread of the presence in us, the bread of life within us. The only thing that satisfies and it's safe to eat bread. 'cause Jesus is in that. He is the bread of life and he's protecting you. He's covering you. It is okay. And instead of seeing bread as this experience where we, our failures for eating this and we're unhealthy, could we see this where actually eating bread is a holy and sacred experience, one that you're sharing with God, even if you're just having your morning toast.
Could you see this? As you taking communion with God, doing that in remembrance of him when you're breaking apart the English muffin, could you see that as you breaking the bread with Jesus, blessing it? Lord, thank you so much for this bread and then taking in that bread of the presence and allow yourself to remember [00:06:00] that God is always with you and in you do that in remembrance of Him in glory and honor to him.
That is how you tangibly can eat. Something like carbs and live out First Corinthians 10 31. Whatever you do with you, eat or drink, do it all for the glory of God. Talking about these verses and having clients meditate on them has really helped them to feel less fearful and to connect with God with their relationship with food in a completely new way, and has given them the courage to challenge food if.
Bread was a fear food for them. So I pray that this is deeply healing for you. I pray that you meditate on these verses and that you do this. Literally, this podcast is your daily bread. I hope that you eat bread daily and you realize that you're eating the bread of the presents. And Jesus confirms what we read in Exodus in the New Testament by saying that he is the bread of life, and whoever comes to me will never go hungry.
We'll never be [00:07:00] thirsty.
