Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Be The Loaf

Every bit of God's working in our lives is to the end of peeling our false-self (chaff) away from our true-self. The false-self is useless and religious. It is a protective shell. Unfortunately, like religion, it keeps the good in and inaccessible to the world which needs that goodness most. The true-self (the grain) is what He uses to make bread (the stuff of life and enjoyment).

It's a simplistic perspective, but we are typically in one of four stages: (1) Being relieved of the chaff (false-self) (2) Being revealed to ourselves as the grain (Christ/true-self) (3) Being ground into meal (processed by orchestrated circumstances/suffering) (4) Being baked to be life and enjoyment (His image: "I am the bread which came from heaven"-Jesus).

If you'll notice, this process comes not by interjecting any external thing, but is a process of revealing for us, that which was inside all along.

Be the loaf.