Post by LiLi Pham on Aug 1, 2014 16:56:30 GMT -5
KEY BIBLE VERSE:
1 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV) - “Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?”
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
Yeast is an ingredient often used to bake bread. It makes bread rise by feeding on the sugars (carbohydrates) in the flour and releasing carbon dioxide. When the carbon dioxide is released, it fills the dough with bubbles, giving the bread its airy texture.
Yeast is a tiny plant-like micro-organism that exists all around us. Our lives can be viewed similarly with all the negative criticisms, advertisements, judgements, and influences that encompass us. We have to wake up everyday and face a world full of this. We let negativities infiltrate into our lives and fill up our minds with nothing, but hopeless air bubbles. We compare our self-image to celebrities and we let others negatively influence us. We start to believe what someone says is true when they continually discourage, scold or belittle us. We even judge others when we do not know the harsh journey they have travelled.
However, we are advised to “get rid of the old yeast, so that [we] may be a new unleavened batch—as [we] really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Corinthians 5:7-8 NIV).
Growing up, I let the expectations that others had of me become my own expectations. I learned that doing this only filled my life with unhappiness, deception, and hopelessness. I allowed the yeast of others to feed on the sweetness in my life and allowed them to fill my mind with their thoughts, opinions, and expectations. Do not let the world discourage you, but let Jesus Christ encourage you. He will not fill the bread of your life with air. “ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV).
1 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV) - “Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?”
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
Yeast is an ingredient often used to bake bread. It makes bread rise by feeding on the sugars (carbohydrates) in the flour and releasing carbon dioxide. When the carbon dioxide is released, it fills the dough with bubbles, giving the bread its airy texture.
Yeast is a tiny plant-like micro-organism that exists all around us. Our lives can be viewed similarly with all the negative criticisms, advertisements, judgements, and influences that encompass us. We have to wake up everyday and face a world full of this. We let negativities infiltrate into our lives and fill up our minds with nothing, but hopeless air bubbles. We compare our self-image to celebrities and we let others negatively influence us. We start to believe what someone says is true when they continually discourage, scold or belittle us. We even judge others when we do not know the harsh journey they have travelled.
However, we are advised to “get rid of the old yeast, so that [we] may be a new unleavened batch—as [we] really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Corinthians 5:7-8 NIV).
Growing up, I let the expectations that others had of me become my own expectations. I learned that doing this only filled my life with unhappiness, deception, and hopelessness. I allowed the yeast of others to feed on the sweetness in my life and allowed them to fill my mind with their thoughts, opinions, and expectations. Do not let the world discourage you, but let Jesus Christ encourage you. He will not fill the bread of your life with air. “ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV).