Comfort & Not Alone
Bread for This Afternoon
Matthew 6:11
Lord, give me this day my daily bread — enough for this afternoon, patience for what remains, grace till sundown. I stop hoarding and start receiving. Amen.
Comfort & Not Alone
Matthew 6:11
Lord, give me this day my daily bread — enough for this afternoon, patience for what remains, grace till sundown. I stop hoarding and start receiving. Amen.
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
— Matthew 6:11
This is the shortest petition in the prayer Jesus taught, and the only one about the body. The word behind 'daily' — epiousios — is so rare that it appears essentially nowhere else in Greek literature; translators have argued over it for centuries, and the best readings land on something like 'for the coming day' or 'the portion we need.' Either way the scale is deliberately small. He could have taught them to ask for a harvest, a storehouse, security. He taught them to ask for a day's bread. His first hearers would have caught the echo immediately: manna in the wilderness, given every morning, and rotting if anyone tried to store up more than the day required. God was not being stingy. He was building a relationship that had to be renewed every morning. So when you hit the middle of the day and the tank is low, that is not a failure of planning. That is the design working — the portion runs out so you come back to the table.
A new voiced prayer each day — for the morning, the commute, the sleepless 3 a.m.
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