Week 3, day 3: Keep depending on God

“Give us today our daily bread.” (NIV)

“Give us today the food we need.” (Good News)

Dan Green writes:

Bread is a source of some frustration in our household. No matter how much of it Karen seems to buy, it just seems to keep running out or going mouldy in the bread bin!

The regularity with which we need to buy bread should be a good reminder of just how much we depend on it. It’s so easy to forget this though, when a 5-minute walk from our front door can get us to the bread aisle in Aldi, Co-op, Tesco or a handful of other shops too! In Jesus’ day, and even today in many parts of the world, it’s a different story of course. People rely on bread to stay alive, and they don’t take its availability for granted in the way that we do.

So as we discussed this line in the Lord’s prayer over dinner together (which included bread of the naan variety by the way, alongside a delicious rice and daal special!), it reminded us of two things: to be grateful for the abundance that we have, and to keep depending on God for all the things we need, not just the ones we eat. As Noah pointed out to us, what if bread isn’t just physical or literal, but might be a picture of something else… like love? What if we read this prayer more like ‘give us today our daily dose of love’?

Let’s keep looking to God and depending on Him for all that we need today.