Once again the stalking has been happening.
I go about my days, minding my own business, when, out of nowhere, there it is … a theme that has been popping up lately, again and again and again.
daily bread
well, actually, it’s more like
DAILY bread!
(because we all know that when something is written capitalized, it is being yelled loudly).
I blame God.
I know it is him, because he is, quite simply, relentless in his stalking.
It might be a verse, lyrics in a song, something said by another person, a portion of a sermon … praying the Lord’s prayer.
That is where it got me (again) yesterday.
give us this day our DAILY bread …
Over, and over, and over again, God has been stalking me with the idea, the message of DAILY bread.
not bread for the week ahead,
not storing it for a rainy day
not investing in it
but DAILY bread …
coming to him,
each and every day,
to ask for enough bread,
just for today.
It is a flashback to those wandering Jews … 40 days of daily bread in the form of manna, from heaven. It is what Matthew Henry says, “to be content with enough” … ah, contentment … that is a hard, life-long, lesson … one we must learn and then learn again each and every day.
This DAILY bread reminds us that we need to ask for it … every day. That we need to acknowledge that he give us just what we need.
Tomorrow’s bread is yet to be seen.
Yesterday’s bread is not longer fresh.
Today’s bread … that is what we live on.
Bread … it’s food, sustenance. We need it every day … like the one who is what bread symbolizes in the Bible … the body of Jesus. He too sustains us. He too is needed every single day.
And … he is enough for today.
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