Blessings to you
For those of us who have to contend with the cold, may I invite us to begin gathering our warm pieces. After all, when we fail to prepare, perhaps we ought to prepare to fail.
Here’s today’s nougat
Give us each day our daily bread Luke 11.3
Having venerated God as both deity and supreme ruler, we place our petitions on the table. The daily bread must have brought manna to the minds of the disciples. They would have been familiar with the 40- year provision in the wilderness and so knew that this request meant carried the weight of answered prayer and faithful provision within the words.
And, if they remembered God’s miraculous wilderness provision then it would also be painfully clear that despite our request for God’s will to be effected on earth; this side of eternity is nigh unto wilderness wanderings. I believe that it was Jim Reeves who sang, “I cannot feel at home in this world anymore.”, and to some extent that is our mantra. When we ask God to make daily provision, we do so knowing that moth and rust may impact.
We also recall that taking more than the daily allotment resulted in maggots and stench accompanying the excess. A request for daily bread means that we are prepared to be dependent on God to supply our needs, and no hoarding! Are we really able to trust God that much?
So we ask God to once again provide for us the miracles and provision – spiritual, material, physical, emotional, mental and fiscal – which we need in order to survive today, in the full assurance that God does this again tomorrow.
Have you tapped into the bread you require for today’s journey?
In Christ.
