The scripture for today, November 3 (11/3), is Luke 11:3 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:
“Give us each day our daily bread.”
This is part of the ideal prayer that Jesus taught his followers to say. We claim to agree with it. But do we completely?
Do we feel like it is our hard-earned money that bought that bread? Do we claim it is our ability to cook that created that bread? Do we claim it was the hard work of the farmers and their equipment that brought us the grain from whence the bread is made? Or the mills that ground it into flour? Or the stores that brought the flour to the consumers?
Ultimately we must look past all of this to that which is beyond our control. It is God who makes the sun to shine down upon the seed. It is God who makes the rain to come down to water it. It is God who places life in the buried wheat germ for it to reproduce with a flourish.
Many activities of man bring us our daily bread. But ultimately it is God the Creator who makes it all possible. He not only makes it possible for good people, he brings bread also to the bad.
He loves everyone so.
“Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.”
“But the man who loves God is known by God.”
The scripture for today, July 28 (7/28), is 2nd Samuel 7:28 as found in the Old Testament of the Bi
The scripture for today, July 11 (7/11), is Matthew 7:11 as found in the New Testament of the Bible.
“Jesus said to them, ‘My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.’ “
“To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.”
“And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”