It’s So Simple
Our Daily Bread
Part Seven

“Give us today our daily bread.” We live in a society that is so spoiled that thinking of our daily bread seems ridicules. Who doesn’t have “our daily bread” and then some? America has always been a prosperous country. Even our poor aren’t really poor. If you have a car, you’re not poor. If you have a cell phone, you’re not poor. If you wear Nike Air sneakers or have a big screen TV… you… are… not… poor! We may not have everything we want but most of us have more than we need.

But the reality is, we are only promised “our daily bread”. Jesus said in Matt 6:25-34 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own”.

I realize that this is a long passage but I believe it’s important to explain “our daily bread”. If we are walking in faith and we look at Christ for our provision, it will be there; it’s God’s promise to us.

As a country we are in difficult times, but I have at least little faith, and God has promised me my daily bread. So I shall take one day at a time. It’s really so simple!