The loaf of bread may be what I want from God—maybe even what I expect from God—but if it doesn’t look like I think it should, it can make me question His love or maybe even begin to resent Him for not coming through. I want His provision to look the way I think it will. But isn’t the loaf the least miraculous of all the forms of bread? It’s the kind of provision we have to work to receive from the ground. We harvest the wheat and process it and then bake it—all with our own hands. But maybe that’s what I like so much about the loaf of bread. Since I’m working for it, I have a sense of
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