I would like for you to think about all the
different things we eat that are made from grains. There are so many items that
we would not be able to list them all. Grains are one of the world’s largest
food supplies. I could not imagine if we didn’t have just a few of the
different types of grain we eat. The foods we buy would change dramatically.
There is a great story in the Bible about going through a famine. It is regarding a man named Joseph and how with God’s instruction saved many people by gathering up as much grain that was available to be stored because he knew a famine was coming to all the area. Because Joseph stored up all the grains, he was able to sell it to those who had none. You can find this story in the book of Genesis chapters 41-45.
I know that many areas are having fires, flooding and just no rain at all and it’s happening all over the world. These events can affect crops in many ways. Fires obviously burn the crops and too much water drowns them. Too little water and they don’t grow at all. However, God will see to it His children are taken care of by supplying their needs. I realize that there are those who believe their wants are a need and that is not the case. Needs are shelter, clothes, and food. Going back to God creating grains, grains were grown, harvested, bought, and sold just as it is today. That in turns gives people the means to buy what they need to live. Therefore, it is a circle that goes all the way around and meets right back to a field of grain. Without grains we would not have as many choices like we do now.
Joshua 2:6 (NKJV)6. But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.
Joshua 5:11 (NKJV)
11. And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.
Judges 7:13 (NKJV)
13. And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”
Ruth 1:22 (NKJV)
22. So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
Jeremiah 41:8 (NKJV)
8. But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have treasures of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field.” So he desisted and did not kill them among their brethren.
Ezekiel 27:17 (NKJV)
17. Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, millet, honey, oil, and balm.
