Ingredients

A rather antiquated but timeless tradition is making bread. One hundred percent by hand and from scratch. As you begin to make bread you mix together ingredients. First the dry then the wet. A little flour, salt, yeast, etc. Mix well until completely combined. 

At this point, however there is no turning back. It is impossible to separate the things that have become one. As the process continues, several ingredients that would not necessarily be desirable as individual ingredients combine to become something that warms the heart and fills the stomach. Both yours and others. However, when you present this to be eaten it is called bread, not a list of the ingredients. With the transformation that has occurred, bread was made. There is no going backwards and the bread is not identified as flour or as salt.

In a similar manner once we incorporate and accept Jesus into our hearts and lives, we are forever changed. We are no longer called dirty or unrighteous but washed, clean, pure and whole. We are also no longer identified by the pieces of ourselves, our flesh, our sinful nature but as a new creation. We are adopted and chosen by our father. That is who we are and who we are called. Not “sinner with a bit of lying, distrust and fear” but “Saint, saved by grace!”