Thursday, March 10, 2016 Our Daily Bread
He causes his sun to rise on the evil and
the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Matthew
5:45
Be sons of your Father. Sons of God will
be like their Father, whose nature it is to love the world. Jesus died for
God’s enemies (Romans 5:10) To love one’s enemies is to share in God’s
peacemaking (v.9) sun…rain. Examples
from nature demonstrate that God has mercy on all. [1]
What
is meant by daily bread? Daily bread includes everything that has to do with
the support and needs of the body, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house,
home, land, animals, money, goods, a devout husband or wife, devout children,
devout workers, devout and faithful rulers, good government, good weather,
peace, health, self-control. Good reputation, good friends, faithful neighbors,
and the like.[2]
Almighty and most
merciful God, drive from us all weakness of body, mind and spirit; that, being
restored to wholeness, we may with free hearts become what you intend us to be
and accomplish what you want us to do; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen[3]
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