✝ Daily Encouragement (7/7/23) "Our Daily Bread"
Published: Fri, 07/07/23
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Friday, July 7, 2023
![]() "Our Daily
Bread"
Message
summary:
It's harvest time! Today let us thank the Lord for both our physical and spiritual provisions that come from Jesus, the Bread of
Life.
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"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11). "I am
the Bread of life" (John 6:48).
Across our region farmers are harvesting wheat which quite predictably takes place at the same time each year in early July. Yesterday as we drove through Lancaster and Lebanon counties we saw farmers harvesting and we saw those setting up for the harvest. Much preparation goes into the harvest including farm equipment, laborers, farm tools, food prep for the workers, and of course maintenance.
Last night I visited with my neighbor Leon, who is a farm equipment service
tech providing a vital yet probably rarely considered service we all rely upon. (When is the last time you thanked God for the skilled tradesmen who repairs tractors and combines?)
The combines come through and harvest the grain which may be used to make
flour for bread or for animal feed, although Leon informed me that most of the wheat in our area will go into making flour. Then they come through the fields and bale the straw which is used for animal bedding and in our region many mushroom houses.
Yesterday I passed a large 18 wheeler with a load of these bales. Leon
informed me that they are having a good harvest (a real blessing for which we thank God since we had a very long dry spell and the crops were quite stunted in growth. We feared for the farmers, but God has sent us an abundance of rain lately over the past ten days.)
I have watched the hardworking farmers and encourage you to give thanks
today for your daily provision. In our home we often give specific thanks for the various laborers who have a role, like Leon, in getting the food on our table ending with showing appreciation for "those who prepared it" (usually Brooksyne!).
But it seems a growing number of people are oblivious toward the essential role of farming and agriculture expressed in this mindless sentiment, "I don't see why we need farmers anymore since we can just get all the food we need at the store or a restaurant". We live near farms and see how hard farmers work. It's also a dangerous job. So let's not take our daily bread for granted. ![]()
Its simple title conveys this same sense of provision that comes from the
spiritual nourishment we receive from the Bible and its daily application in our lives.
Today we want to consider two Bible verses dealing with bread; both are the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ:
![]() ![]() In verse 27 He states, "Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you." Of course Jesus was not giving a put-down to those who labor in the fields, but He was teaching His listeners that food which only feeds the body is not enough. We need heaven-sent food which has an eternal, spiritual nurturing component that feeds the soul. Earth-grown food cannot provide that need. Today let us thank the Lord for both our physical and spiritual provisions that come from Jesus, the Bread of Life.
Be encouraged today, (
Hebrews
3:13)
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
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Last night I spoke to Bob, a local dairy farmer and member of our ABF class.
He shared that he does not plant wheat but lots of corn. However he uses a small amount (about a pound) of wheat straw in the feed for the cows. Each cow eats 120 pounds of total feed each day!
They also drink 30 gallons of water daily, more in the summer with hot
weather.
But he pointed out that each cow produces 90 pounds of milk daily average (about 11 gallons).
Brooksyne considers her experience of growing up on a farm (farmette, they
would call it here in Lancaster County.) Bessie was their family cow who got milked morning and evening; each milking session producing a gallon of milk. Her dad and brother did the milking, the girls (Brooksyne) strained the milk and stored it in the fridge until the cream rose to the top. Then the cream was used to make homemade butter or buttermilk. (Raising one cow to feed the family is quite a different experience than having a herd of cows for mass
production.)
We were blessed to receive this comment yesterday: Terimakasih semua tulisan
sudah kami baca dengan baik. Dan luar biasa. kami {ferry dan olvi}, melayani suku yang terabaikan di pulau lombok NTB, Indonesia yakni suku sasak, kami mohon dukungan doa agar suku ini bisa menerima kasih Yesus. Thank God for Google
translate!
![]() Harvest in our
neighborhood
This morning as we returned from chaplain visits the farm workers were
finishing picking up the straw bales in a field off Colebrook Road near our home.
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