We have continued our journey through the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6.  "Our daily bread"

What exactly is it?  A fair question especially if we need to know if we're getting it or not.  Proverbs 30:8-9 puts it this way (sort of)...that if I have too much I'll forget God and if I have too little then I'll be tempted to steal and so dishonor God, so give me only my daily bread.  What I wrestled with is all the quantitative language surrounding this line of thinking.  Perhaps though, thinking in those terms would give us the idea that 'our daily bread' is a measurable amount so as to gauge our blessedness.  And that's not such a great thing...

What do you think of as your daily bread?  Is it the food on your table?  Perhaps the money in your wallet?  Is it even the clothing on your back? 

Jesus told Satan that man doesn't live on bread alone, but on every word from God.  Jesus even called himself the bread of life.  Jesus teaches us that when we break the bread at His table that is symbolizes His body broken for all of humanity.  So, perhaps we ought to try the line as 'give us this day a thought of how You're working in us.' 

As we remember how God is active in our lives, it makes the next few lines of the prayer easier pills to swallow.  Perhaps a bit easier to forgive others.  Perhaps a bit easier to stand strong in the face of temptation.  We ask God to reveal Himself to us in our surroundings and dealings to make it easier for us to see His activity.  And it's that activity that might just be 'our daily bread.'