12th April, 2025, Saturday, 1734 hours – timestamp. Njoki starts writing this post. I’ve not actually eaten bread today, not through my mouth.

Today’s a Saturday, yay, and it’s definitely my favourite day of the week, because, hello Sabbath!?!? Honestly, I love the Sabbath. I do. It is a reminder of creation, and a necessity, after toiling the earth for six days. I love that God set apart this day for rest, and although I’ve not been keeping the whole day holy and restful as I should, I love that automatically, my body goes into rest. It’s totally due to nurture, cos I was raised in a very Adventist family – I’m talking about not watching TV from Friday evening to Sabbath evening (exception of Kurasini SDA Church Choir music), cooking Saturday’s meals on Friday, staying in church the whole day on Saturday, not going to school like the rest of my classmates on Saturdays, even when there were exams… My body got used to ‘shutting down’ on Fridays and getting reactivated in the evening on Saturday.

Today’s blog isn’t about my Adventist family, but a sharing of today’s sermon, presented by Elder Mar Rotich. I won’t break anything down – just copying directly from my notes app and pasting here. If you’re a Christian, this might be good for you – if, like me, you’ve been missing a few church services, not doing periodic daily devotions, not worshipping enough*…

The notes:

12/04/2025 SERMON
What have I given up because of food, like Esau?

Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birthright.

Even Jesus performed many ‘food miracles’.
‘Food’ is mentioned about 1200 times in the Bible.
‘Bread’ is mentioned about 230 times.
Jesus, then, says, ‘I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.’
Spiritual malnourishment is as real as they come.
We need three core ‘nutrients’, akin to vitamin, proteins, and carbs:

• A relationship with our Maker – reading the Bible regularly (1 Tim 4:6).
• Worship – song… (Psalm 96:1)
• Serve – have an outlet (idleness sucks – Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.)
  Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Basically saying that we should have our priorities right.
We should seek to be nourished spiritually, even as we seek physical nourishment- bread and all:-)❤️

The end!

Feel free to read the Bible verses in brackets. May our good Lord be continually good to us, as He has been.

May your evening be great! Mine will be – I’m going to a cool joint to experience a South African artiste, live. If you know me, you know I should’ve been born South African cos their music makes my blood dance, my ovaries tingle, the hairs on the back of my hair stand up, pluuuussss, I’ll be in GREAT company. I’m sooo grateful.

Let’s see each other soon, reader!

Be well.

Yours, restfully and musically, missing bread,

Njoks.