Daily Bread.
These words are pretty simple, yet have so much meaning to them. On there own they are pretty useless but when you combine them with something so infinite, something so powerful, something so... beautiful and mighty, these words bring life, hope, peace, and joy. These words, Daily Bread bring money, shelter, full, quenched. These words are... really incomprehensible and the only reason why is because they are what our heavenly father provides us.
For a long while now, probably since around the beginning of the year, my mindset on prayer has drastically changed. As my views on prayers changed i started praying in a different way and something i usually do is pray the Lords prayer in the morning... you know start my day off with a little scripture, truth, life.
So for those of you who may not know what the "Lords Prayer" is... here it is, from Matthew 6: 9-13
"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."Honestly, until recently, which is after many months of saying this scripture over, something dawned on me... "Give us this day our daily bread." This verse hit me so hard and it makes me smile even now as i read it. God is in control. God has everything and can give everything. God wants us to ask him for what we need that day. This verse is us saying, "God i don't know what today has in store for me but i know that i need you and i want you to provide for me the food that i will need to survive, the shelter i will need to survive, the clothes i need for today, the money for the things i need, God please give me LIFE."
These verses our so amazing. I stinking love them and the life and the joy and the everything that they bring. It is such a comfort knowing that God will give me what i need for that day. God has this amazing journey for me... for each one of us and i am just hoping and praying that i will continue to have the faith and trust in him to provide what i need. I mean what a relief that is, to know that what i need: shelter, food, money, clothes is provided for by my heavenly father who has everything.
So know that God desires to provide for us so that we can bring him glory. He isn't providing the winning lottery number but he is providing the money for groceries and food and shelter. He isn't providing all of the items we have in our house but he is providing the essential things we need to survive day to day. He provides the heat in the cold and the cold in the heat. He provides us with life abundantly instead of the death that we bring upon ourself. God is a provider, but within that we must realize it isn't easy, it may not seem perfect and it may seem scary, but it is always good and for his purpose and glory.
He provides for us our what we need. He provides for his glory.
Daily Bread.
1 comments, questions, concerns:
That's an interesting post, coming from one of the Western Mindset, and one who has probably not gone a day actually needing for anything (and by needing, I mean to say you have always had the ample sustenance available to survive, whether you were fasting or not).
Daily Bread.
Daily Bread. To the people Jesus was talking to that meant a whole lot more to them than it does to you or I. These were sustenance level people, their next meal was often their highest concern.
Yet... what of the thousands that die each day due to not having enough "daily bread" to survive. The highly Christian Ethiopian society, they pray the Lords prayer, yet where is their daily bread? What of the 2.6 billion people (and that was '04, undoubtedly it's more now) that live under $2 a day, they desperately need their daily bread, yet thousands die each day. What of those who died because of Katrina? They must have missed out on their daily bread, otherwise they would have had ample shelter to survive the horrid destruction, disease, and suffering that N.O. was laden with.
Anyways, glad you're exploring new ways of prayer, Becky wants me to recommend a book by Phylis Tickle called the "Divine Hours", which is essentially the spiritual practice of praying certain things (to coincide with the lectionary) at certain times of the day.
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