Could you imagine what our food would taste like without the flavor of spices? I guess that the people thousands of years ago must have thought the same thing. No matter what country you live in we all use spices they just may be different for the kind of food you make. Food would be so bland and tasteless if we didn’t have spices. So many recipes we make today call for the same ancient types of spices they used long ago.
I think it’s pretty awesome that God cared enough about us and what we ate to create flavorful spices to make it that much more enjoyable. We cook the way we do because we like it and the plants that were found all those years ago by generations past has contributed to how we eat today.
It’s an incredible way to think about all those
bottles we now get from the store. It’s just full of any kind of spice and
flavorings you would want. Many years ago it was picked, hung upside down and
dried, then crushed with a tool by hand now we just go to the store and take it
off a shelf. So next time you pick up that bottle of spice to shake on your
food remember where it came from and who created it. It might make it taste
that much better.
And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste
of it was like wafers made with honey.
Exodus 30:23-24 (NKJV)
23. “Also take for yourself quality spices—five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane, 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
Numbers 11:7 (NKJV)
7. Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
Proverbs 7:17 (NKJV)
17. I have perfumed my bed
With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Song of Solomon 4:14 (NKJV)
14. Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon,
With all trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes,
With all the chief spices—
Song of Solomon 4:16 (NKJV)
16. Awake, O north wind,
And come, O south!
Blow upon my garden,
That its spices may flow out.
Let my beloved come to his garden
And eat its pleasant fruits.
Isaiah 43:24 (NKJV)
24. You have bought Me no sweet cane with money,
Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices;
But you have burdened Me with your sins,
You have wearied Me with your iniquities.
Jeremiah 6:20 (NKJV)
20. For what purpose to Me
Comes frankincense from Sheba,
And sweet cane from a far country?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.”
Ezekiel 27:19 (NKJV)
19. Dan and Javan paid for your wares, traversing back and forth. Wrought iron, cassia, and cane were among your merchandise.
Matthew 23:23 (NKJV)
23. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Revelation 18:13 (NKJV)
13. and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.
