If you've ever been to a bakery, you might never want to eat bread again.
If you're the kind of person who gets irritated when life stretches you beyond your comfort zone, I beg you, don’t read this post.
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When I ask people why they love bread, most of them can’t even explain it. They just know it’s soft, quick, versatile, and easy (that's the word). Bread doesn’t waste your time. It goes with anything. It’s always there.
But have you ever stopped to ask yourself:
What does it take to become bread?... If you haven't, Let me show you.
First comes the flour but not just any flour, it must be sifted. Every lump, every imperfection removed.
Then it is mixed. Not gently. Not kindly. It is thrown, turned, crushed, rolled over and over again. Butter, sugar, flavors, poured in, not to pamper it, but to break it down further.
Just when you think that’s enough, it is cut, molded, and shoved into shape. Then comes the worst part: THE FIRE.
Not a mild flame, not a sweet breeze of heat but a fire so hot that even the baker stands at a distance. And the bread stays there… for as long as it takes.
All of this pain, all of this pressure, Just to become something that can be eaten in seconds.
And yet, it is in that pain the bread finds its purpose.
So tell me… Why do you cry at the first sight of heat in your own life?
Why do you abandon your calling because the mixing hurts?
Why do you run from process, when even bread doesn’t?
You want your name on platforms, your gift on stages, your voice in nations.
You want the world to taste your greatness.
But you don’t want to be sifted.
You don’t want to be cut.
You don’t want to enter the fire.
My dear, if you saw what bread goes through behind bakery walls, you might never eat it again.
Here’s the truth: The impact of bread lasts far longer than the process of becoming it. And so will yours.
If only you pay the price.
You are not flour anymore. You are becoming. Embrace the heat. Submit to the shaping and rise.
Hopefully, this story is so poetic to us as the Urantia book readers and as ambassadors of God ( the Father) for His Kingdom.
171:2.2 "You who would follow after me from this time on, must be willing to pay the price of wholehearted dedication to the doing of my Father's will. If you would be my disciples, you must be willing to forsake father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters. If any one of you would now be my disciple, you must be willing to give up even your life just as the Son of Man is about to offer up his life for the completion of the mission of doing the Father's will on earth and in the flesh.
171:2.3 "If you are not willing to pay the full price, you can hardly be my disciple. Before you go further, you should each sit down and count the cost of being my disciple. Which one of you would undertake to build a watchtower on your lands without first sitting down to count up the cost to see whether you had money enough to complete it? If you fail thus to reckon the cost, after you have laid the foundation, you may discover that you are unable to finish that which you have begun, and therefore will all your neighbors mock you, saying, `Behold, this man began to build but was unable to finish his work.' Again, what king, when he prepares to make war upon another king, does not first sit down and take counsel as to whether he will be able, with ten thousand men, to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? If the king cannot afford to meet his enemy because he is unprepared, he sends an embassy to this other king, even when he is yet a great way off, asking for terms of peace.
171:2.4 "Now, then, must each of you sit down and count the cost of being my disciple. From now on you will not be able to follow after us, listening to the teaching and beholding the works; you will be required to face bitter persecutions and to bear witness for this gospel in the face of crushing disappointment. If you are unwilling to renounce all that you are and to dedicate all that you have, then are you unworthy to be my disciple. If you have already conquered yourself within your own heart, you need have no fear of that outward victory which you must presently gain when the Son of Man is rejected by the chief priests and the Sadducees and is given into the hands of mocking unbelievers.
171:2.5 "Now should you examine yourself to find out your motive for being my disciple. If you seek honor and glory, if you are worldly minded, you are like the salt when it has lost its savor. And when that which is valued for its saltiness has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Such a condiment is useless; it is fit only to be cast out among the refuse. Now have I warned you to turn back to your homes in peace if you are not willing to drink with me the cup which is being prepared. Again and again have I told you that my kingdom is not of this world, but you will not believe me. He who has ears to hear let him hear what I say."
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That which the enlightened and reflective human imagination of spiritual teaching and leading wholeheartedly and unselfishly wants to do and be, becomes measurably creative in accordance with the degree of mortal dedication to the divine doing of the Father's will. When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen.132:7.9 | https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_132.html#132:7.9
194:4.7 Unmistakably, a new fellowship was arising in the world. “The multitude who believed continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” They called each other brother and sister; they greeted one another with a holy kiss; they ministered to the poor. It was a fellowship of living as well as of worship. They were not communal by decree but by the desire to share their goods with their fellow believers. They confidently expected that Jesus would return to complete the establishment of the Father’s kingdom during their generation. This spontaneous sharing of earthly possessions was not a direct feature of Jesus’ teaching; it came about because these men and women so sincerely and so confidently believed that he was to return any day to finish his work and to consummate the kingdom. But the final results of this well-meant experiment in thoughtless brotherly love were disastrous and sorrow-breeding. Thousands of earnest believers sold their property and disposed of all their capital goods and other productive assets. With the passing of time, the dwindling resources of Christian “equal-sharing” came to an end – but the world did not. Very soon the believers at Antioch were taking up a collection to keep their fellow believers at Jerusalem from starving.
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