Meditations

Our Daily Bread GIVE US EACH DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. Luke 11.3 O God, what is this bread? It is not only the physical sustenance that in your providence you give us for the necessities of life, but it is also the nourishment of truth that you give daily to our souls. That kind of bread nourishes us unto eternal life. It makes our souls grow and become robust when our faith is tested. Every day you renew this bread. Both inwardly and outwardly you give our souls precisely what we need to continue in our life of faith and self-denial. All I have to do is eat this bread, and in a spirit of sacrifice to receive all the bitter tasting things that you send my way, both in outward matters and in the depths of my heart. Indeed, what happens to me in the course of each day is my daily bread, provided I do not refuse to take it from your hand and feed on it.