Bread is an age-old staple. For thousands of years, bread has been the primary nutrient for many cultures and peoples. Made from grains ground into flour, oil, salt, and sometimes yeast, bread could be made easily and quickly and baked over a fire.

Numerous scripture stories talk about bread, not only as a cultural food necessity but as a metaphor. Bread means sustenance, survival, life, nourishment, provision, day-to-day living. But it can also mean “the stuff that someone is made of!”

As we say in our culture, “You are what you eat!” Are we made of the “right stuff” that is pleasing to God? That is the question. What kind of “bread” are you allowing into your body and spirit? What kind of “bread” therefore have you become?

In our Hebrew scripture for today, the prophet Elijah is provi…