BREAD Bitesize - 2025
Welcome to BREAD Bitesize. Here a few of us will be sharing a brief reflection from a portion of Scripture from the previous week’s readings. Our hope is that this is an encouragement for your own time of reading and reflects the relational reality of spending time with Jesus in his word.
17 Mar | how long is 40 days? | Exodus 32
40 days, just over a month, can feel like a decent amount of time. Especially when you're waiting for a particular date in the future, a holiday, a wedding, a visa application approval. At the same time it can feel short. Whilst those of us are counting down days, still others of us are wishing there were more. The parent whose child is growing up too fast, a gap year coming to its end, a loved one's life cut short. For the people of Israel, 40 days was a long time. Last week, in Exodus 32:1 we read, "When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said, 'Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him.'" It is alarming that a people, who 40 days earlier said, "Everything that Lord has said we will do." are now asking for a golden calf as their god. Whilst I am sure we've experienced both extremes - time seemingly too slow and too fast - we see here that time itself should not be the primary cause of human response. It makes me wonder, believing that whatever God is doing is good, what would it look like to trust him today? What would it look like to exercise faith today? What would it look like to depend on Jesus today? ~ Pastor Jacob
This week's readings: Leviticus 1-13 | Matthew 26:57-28, Acts 1-2 | Job 23-29