Give me this day, my daily bread.
This prayer reflects our need for God to give us our daily provision, to sustain the life he gave us. It’s not a prayer for God to give us abundance or extra, beyond what we need.
It’s not a prayer for wants or things that the world can give and goes away.
It’s a prayer to our creator, asking him to give us only what we need, and only what is required to live abundantly, through him and him alone.
It’s never asking for more, because Jesus never gives less than what he knows we need (not what we think we need).
It’s our knowing that all that God gives us, no matter what it is or how much he gives, is enough.
It is more than sufficient and more than enough to flourish, because it comes from him.
If what God gives is a loaf of bread, because it’s his bread and no one else’s, it’s precisely what we need, and all that we need.
It gives insight to the truth that it’s only living through Jesus, and him alone, do we receive everything that we need.
When God’s children try to live apart from him, we are never satisfied because it’s not from God, which means it can never be enough and it can never satisfy.
God is the giver of all good things.
In fact, he is the only giver of all good things. All that is inside us that is good, comes from God. All that is in us that isn’t good, doesn’t come from God, including sin. God sent manna down from heaven daily, to feed 600,000 Israelite men, plus women and children, when he led them out of slavery in Egypt. His daily bread was all they needed. It was more than enough, because it came from God.
Jesus later fed the 5,000 as the true “bread of life”. He was more than enough.
Christians must claim the truth that our likeness of God and being made in his image, are a creation blessing that sustains our life. We live and grow in Christ, which means our identity in God, lives and grows inside us. Flourishing in life, only comes when we abide in Christ. Abiding in Christ is the same as relying on the bread of life, which is Christ.
He feeds us every day when we pray, worship, read God’s word, and live life through him. Jn14:6. “I am the way, the truth and the life.”
We are nothing without Jesus. We can’t be saved from ourselves, rescued from our sin, redeemed through his blood, restored by His Spirit, perfected for heaven, and glorified by his glory, if life isn’t lived through Jesus.
Gl:2-20. “It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.”
We have all tried to live life on our own, through our own Lordship, without our source of life, without his daily bread, and it is one without authentic value.
In the end, life is meaningless.
Ec:1-2. “Life is meaningless, completely meaningless.”
Ec:12-13. “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter. Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the duty of all mankind.”
Understanding only the spirit power of God, flowing through our body, giving all that humans need to thrive and live abundantly, is our treasure.
What we seek and receive outside of God, reduces our essential food from God.
That’s because when we look outside of our Jesus relationship for what we think is more, actually results in getting less from life, because it’s not directly from God himself (creator and source of life).
“Give me this day, my daily bread”, as our daily prayer for daily need, is non negotiable for a life of purpose, meaning, significance, and fulfillment.
It’s also a life lived here, for our kingdom life to come. Without our daily bread from God, life becomes meaningless, and ends as a life just lived.
Ro6:8-11. “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once and for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God, in Christ Jesus.”
Jesus lives to God. We are alive to God.
We are one in Christ. Praise God, the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
