God will meet your needs of today, today. This is His plan, help in the hour of need. Grace for the moment. The concerns of tomorrow will be met tomorrow. Provisions for next week will arrive next week. God meets the needs of the day, each day.
For that reason He taught us to pray: "Give us the food we need for each day." (Luke 11:3)
Bread represents our basic need. We need only a couple of things every day: breath, bread and a cherry topped chocolate ice cream sundae...(ok, the cherry is optional). Christ explains God's schedule for meeting such needs. Day by day. We don't pray for an annual allotment or monthly shipment of bread. He gives not a bakery or a truckload. He gives daily portions.
When the wilderness wondering Israelites grew hungry, he responded with daily downpours if manna and coveys of quail. God told them to gather just enough food for the day, but some did not listen. "But some of the people did not listen to Moses and kept part of it to eat the next morning. It became full of worms and began to stink..." (Exodus 16:20).
Don't we do the same thing? Try to solve tomorrow's problems with today's resources and today stinks. It gets wormy. Jesus could not have been more clear: "Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have it's own worries. Each day has enough trouble of it's own" (Matthew 6:33-34).
Trust God, friend. "Let us, then, feel very sure that we can come before God's throne where there is grace. There we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it." (Hebrews 4:16, emphasis mine).
God gives grace for the moment. And in this moment I pray that God and His word would give you eternal strength and amply provide for you. May He heal your heart with heaven glipses and steel your character with strength portions.
God bless you in all you do.
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