Daily Bread; Day239

Give us this day our daily bread. Mat 6:11 

“Until this phrase, Christ has taught us to pray for eternal things.  He now turns to temporal things.  But if we are to pray for temporal things, we must still have the eternal view in mind:
There is only one time in our lives where we touch eternity.  That time is “now.”  Only in the present do we live.  But to God, the author of time, all times are “now.”  So when he commands us to deal with temporal things in the eternal view, it must be with a time of “now.”  Hence, our “daily” bread.
It is also a matter of faith, of trust.  If we obey his commands and take no thought for tomorrow, then we need ask only for today’s bread.
And for what do we ask?  Bread.  Why “bread?”
Bread is the symbol of the physical things we need.  God is interested in all of our lives, not just the spiritual.  He wants all of our lives to be under his command.
We ask for bread, not for cake.  The peril of pursuing wealth is known to all Christians.
When we ask for daily bread, we are asking for just enough for today.  This is so that we will not have too little, and be forced to steal; nor that we shall have too much, and deny God by boasting in our own wealth.
By asking for “just enough” for today, we deny gluttony its great chance.
We ask, “Give us.”  The plural is important.  We are to pray for the physical things we need, both for ourselves and for those around us.  If you go to God asking bread for the hungry, it is hard to deny them some of your own.
Bread is a very basic item.  Martin Luther points out that when bread cannot be obtained, it is usually because of the chaos coming from a lack of sound government.  So in praying for our daily bread, we also ask for an orderly society—the kind in which the Gospel spreads quickly.

Hidden in this passage is another meaning.  Bread—the Bread of Life is also present.  Given to us by God at Calvary, we are to ask for that Bread too.  We are to ask for it daily, not just once a week, lest we have spiritual starvation.  We are to ask for ourselves, and for those around us, that all may be fed from heaven. “

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. Rest
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3. Read-Fifth Discipline, p128 [info]
4. Read-Transforming the Mind, p206 [ebook]
5. Read-Exchange2007 Training Kit, p148 [ebook]

0500, Breakfast; journal;
0500, Leave for work
1200, Lunch
1900, Dinner
2000, Read
2200, Sleep