In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.