e-votional
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Wednesday March 18, 2009
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’Give us this day our daily bread. – Matthew 6:11, NASB
I like shopping at Sam’s Club. It’s grocery shopping on steroids. I mean, why buy a dozen eggs when you can buy the whole hatchery? Aren’t three pounds of Cheez-Its better than one? Twenty-four slices of cheese? Not me. I buy a pack of ninety-six. If you notice, the bulk phenomenon has also seeped into other retailers. I now buy toilet paper by the truckload at Target. A single pack isn’t good enough. I need a multi-pack. After all, who wants to run out of something?
As Jesus teaches His disciples to pray, He encourages them to pray for daily bread. Not monthly bread. Not weekly. Daily. Give me daily bread? Are you kidding me!? If I only ask for daily bread, I’m going to need to do it again tomorrow. And the next day. And the next. And the one after that. What a hassle. What happens if I forget? What happens if God is too busy to come through? How am I supposed to have any degree of comfort with daily bread?
The whole concept of daily bread is reminiscent of the exodus. As the children of Israel journeyed out of Egypt, they needed food. Each day, God provided manna (Exodus 16). The people could gather as much as they could eat, except they weren’t allowed to store any of it. They had to go back out each morning (excluding the Sabbath) and get more. Each day they needed to go get their daily bread. Each day they had to lean on God and trust Him to keep His promise.
Daily bread is like that. It is a faith building endeavor. It trusts that God will come through again tomorrow. And the next day. And the next. It’s trusting in Him instead of me. He will meet my needs. He won’t run out. He won’t come up short. God will always come through. He has enough bread for all the tomorrows that lie ahead. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go unload my van. I just got back from Sam’s.
Pastor Darrell
