Daily Bread

It has been a long, long time since I have posted anything. In reality I have been on a life-changing journey since the last post, which ambiguously referred to the rekindling of an old flame. In short, I am a wife now. Sometime I should write the whole story of our romance, because God certainly gave us a romantic story. However, the idea of catching up is a little overwhelming to me at the moment, and it would be better to just pick up where I am right now.

Or where I have been for a while. That is, I am always a sparrow. You know, the little birds that God says He cares so much about, that need not sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet our Heavenly Father feeds them? "Are you not of more value than they?" (Mt. 6:26).

 This morning I was struck by the phrase, "Give us this day our daily bread." I was thinking about the food we are going to eat today, groceries to buy later, and the steady paycheck that we use to buy the food. This past year (2012) has been very difficult with job changes and sometimes having to rely on savings for our weekly needs. Beloved's current job is not the most ideal, and we are seeking something different, but I am so thankful for the way God provided it just at the right time, and how He is using it to give us our daily bread. As I thought about the petition for daily bread that Christ was teaching to His disciples, my mind went to a time in which God literally provided daily bread for His children. They called it Manna! (Exodus 16) There was enough for everyone for just one day. If they tried to keep extra for the next day it would spoil. (The only time they could gather extra was the day before Rest.)

 I read Exodus 16 a couple weeks ago, and how I resonated with the daily provision. Yet we complain that we don't have what we think we should have. We want to be able to store up provisions so that we can rest securely on it, rather than resting on God. Not that it is wrong to have a surplus. . . I think He gives people extra at times for His different reasons. He also knows our hearts, and perhaps He gives us the lesson of daily manna to teach us to trust Him.
 To really trust Him.

And to be thankful.