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Matthew 6:11 - Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.Matthew 6:11 (KJV): Give us this day our daily bread.INTRODUCTION When we pray, Give us today the food we need, we acknowledge God as our sustainer and provider. He gives us physical strength, wisdom, courage, and the Holy Spirit to lead us each day. As we pray this prayer, we confess that we did not create ourselves and that we are not self-sufficient. We must trust God daily to provide what he knows we need. [Life Application SB 2019] COMMENTARY PEARL When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we ask for others as well as ourselves. And we acknowledge that what God gives us is not for ourselves alone. God gives to us in trust, that we may feed the hungry... The prayer for daily bread includes not only food to sustain the body, but that spiritual bread which will nourish the soul unto life everlasting. Jesus bids us, "Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life." John 6:27. He says, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever." Verse 51. Our Saviour is the bread of life, and it is by beholding His love, by receiving it into the soul, that we feed upon the bread which came down from heaven. We receive Christ through His word, and the Holy Spirit is given to open the word of God to our understanding, and bring home its truths to our hearts. We are to pray day by day that as we read His word, God will send His Spirit to reveal to us the truth that will strengthen our souls for the day's need. In teaching us to ask every day for what we need --both temporal and spiritual blessings--God has a purpose to accomplish for our good. He would have us realize our dependence upon His constant care, for He is seeking to draw us into communion with Himself. In this communion with Christ, through prayer and the study of the great and precious truths of His word, we shall as hungry souls be fed; as those that thirst, we shall be refreshed at the fountain of life. MB102-22 COMMENTARY Food for All An Amazing Fact: Bees are very social insects, and mutual feeding seems to be the order of their existence. The workers feed the helpless queen, who cannot feed herself. They feed the drones and, of course, they feed the young. They seem to actually enjoy this social act. One bee always seems ready to feed another bee, even if that bee is from a different colony. The bee has been aptly described as busy. To produce one tablespoon of honey for our toast, the little bee makes 4,200 trips to flowers. A worker bee will fly as far as eight miles in search of nectar. He makes about 10 trips a day to the fields, each trip lasting 20 minutes and covering 400 flowers. To produce just one pound of clover honey, the bee must visit 56,000 clover heads. Since each head has 60 flower tubes, a total of 3,360,000 visits are necessary. In the end, that worker bee will have flown the equivalent of three times around the world. And they never sleep! The impact of the honeybee on your food goes beyond honey. This little wonder of God's creation is responsible for 80 percent of all insect pollination; if it didn't do its job it would significantly decrease the yield of fruits and vegetables. Psalm 145 is a song of praise to the Creator. "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3). As we look at the amazing honeybee, we can join David in saying, "I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works" (v. 5). When we consider the immense number of flowers it takes to make one pound of honey, it seems an impossibility, yet the Bible says, "The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing" (v. 15, 16). Thank God for the honeybee! [Moving Mountains by Amazing Facts] Everyday Grace The gospel is not only about a decision you make once and for all - it's about a decision you make every day. That doesn't mean that you lose your salvation and need to get saved all over again. It means that the gospel is not simply about walking down an aisle or praying a certain prayer or getting baptized. The gospel is about living in the light of Jesus' resurrection power every day. We need God's saving grace to be made alive. And we need God's transforming grace to be made alive every day. The grace is the same grace. The gospel is the same gospel. We need grace to come up out of our graves for the first time. We need grace to stay out of the grave if it ever beckons us back. That's the beauty of Christ's work on the cross. Jesus' work raises us to life and sustains that life each and every day. How does He do it? By giving us today our daily bread. Every day, He provides and sustains you for your spiritual life. Dear God, I need Your daily bread to flourish today. I need Your new mercies to wash over me right now, that I would know the power of Your salvation anew. [Grace and Glory by Louie Giglio] LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY Matthew 6:11 - Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread. https://www.abible.com/devotions/2025/20250621-0426.html https://www.abible.com/devotions/2019/20190401-1313.html http://www.abible.com/devotions/2017/20170912-1000.html http://www.abible.com/devotions/2005/20051209-0822.html LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT https://abible.com/links/ |