Daily Bread and Daily Work by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 8, 1907

Daily Bread and Daily Work

By Editor

Editorial

Daily Bread and Daily Work

THE prayer for daily bread includes both physical and spiritual food. We are equally dependent upon God for both. Both are given that we may have strength for service. Those who refuse to serve forfeit the right to receive these gifts. “If any man will not work, neither let him eat.” The more earnest the service, the greater need there is of food. Those, therefore, who desire to receive the Living Bread in the fullest measure should seek most earnestly to impart spiritual blessing to others. Daily toil is the price of daily bread.

“Good . . . Good . . . Good”

THE teachings of Jesus are simple, but wonderfully comprehensive. In a brief statement adapted to the minds of the average hearer he presents the fundamental truths of Christian experience. Here is one such statement: “A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things.” We do not make ourselves good or put good treasure into the heart by trying to bring forth good things; but when we have been made good by a power outside of ourselves, and the good treasure has been put into the heart, then we can do nothing good of ourselves, but the sooner we learn the fact and acknowledge it and learn to depend wholly upon Jesus, the better it will be for us. “Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” This law of the natural world holds good in the spiritual world also. “Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.” “Make the tree good, and his fruit good;” but the change of nature must precede the change in the fruit. Such is the law of our being.