"Your Daily Ed" was a nice play on words, but there were those who thought the name could be... well, different, better, whatever. I have to admit, I like "Your Daily Ed", but... kinda draws attention to me, not to whom it should - God! So... in the spirit of the Lord who gave us the words of the present title, here it is - GIVE US THIS DAY - for better or for worse!
Speaking of "Give us this day...", pull up a chair, grab your coffee (or tea, or whatever), and take a moment to read a portion of what we often refer to as "The Lord's Prayer":
READ: Matthew 6: 9-13
This is the prayer that Jesus taught to His disciples, His followers. Jesus wanted them to know how they were supposed to talk to God (which is what prayer is - talking to God!), and so this teaching moment happened. One of these verses reads:
Give us this day our daily bread...
We think of 'bread' as being a staple, a food, solid and nourishing - and it is. In this context, however, Jesus was not limiting 'bread' to being only that; He was saying we need food ('bread'), in order to survive - it feeds us and gives us the nourishment we need to keep going - but we also need His Word ('bread', the Bible!). Confused? A bit hard to wrap your head around? Well, think of the Bible, which is God's teachings for us, as what nourishes us and keeps us going - without it, we just get by. If we can see this, then we can understand that the Bible and its teachings are what we need to live a full life, and so asking God to give to us - daily! - what we need to stay alive in Him is exactly what we should be doing!
I saw this picture on FB and thought it very appropriate to this devotional:
Don't get me wrong, cake is great - I love cake - who doesn't! (especially chocolate cake with chocolate ganache icing... but I digress...) However, eating cake just doesn't give us what we need to grow and be healthy! Eating solid food, like bread, does it - and that's what the Bible is for us. AND... we are to do this DAILY (remember: "Give us this day our DAILY bread"!).
- What kind of 'spiritual food' are YOU eating?
- How might your 'eating' habits be able to be changed? improved?
In this day and age where health and fitness is so huge, why not make certain that your spiritual health is where it should be also! I mean, really, God said to, so it's not like we should be thinking otherwise, right!
PRAYER
God, help us in our times of spiritual famine, to eat properly, to eat of the Bread of Life. And God, please give this to us DAILY - our daily bread!
Amen.
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