“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today 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 the evil one.'”
When I come to this part of the Lord’s Prayer, I sometimes think of the Israelites and how God was giving them food each and every day. The food only lasted for that day and they had to trust Him that He would provide food again for them the next day.
I believe that Jesus was not only talking about food, but that He was also talking about our needs in general. Asking to be supplied with what we need for the day whether that be food or financial help or emotional help, can be considered asking for “our daily bread”. The level of trust that is evident in the prayer in amazing because it feels like we, as God’s creation, do not tend to rely on Him in that manner as much in this day and age as we did in Jesus’s time.
We believe ourselves to be more self-sufficient now than before. We are able to store food for future use, save money for the future and believe we can handle ourselves more than we did before. However, until we truly understand that we are more dependent on God than we believe, we are going to struggle when it comes to trusting Him for our daily bread.
Do you ask God each day to supply your needs for that day? I know this sounds like it is not needed in our world of convenience, but going and asking God to supply what you need for the day is a wonderful way to remember that we are dependent on Him and should be relying on Him daily.