Daily Bread and Daily Work
By Editor
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 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. When, after resting on the Sabbath, “according to the commandment,” the women came to the sepulcher of Jesus, they were “perplexed” because they “found not the body of the Lord Jesus.” They were soon comforted, however, by the announcement made to them by the two beings “in dazzling apparel,” “He is not here, but is risen.” The fact that the tomb was vacant, a fact established beyond any reasonable doubt, is one of the corner-stones in the Christian belief, for “if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.” That vacant tomb means that every other tomb will be vacant. This will occur when he who has the power over death and the grave shall call the sleeping millions forth from their dusty beds. Here is our Lord’s own statement of his authority to do this: “I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of Hades.” As we by faith look into the Saviour’s vacant tomb, we can see every other tomb vacant, and we may know of a surety that those whom we have loved and laid away will not always rest where we have placed them so tenderly. “Why should we tremble to convey
The Christian to the tomb?
There once the flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.”
“Thence he arose, ascending high,
And showed our feet the way:
Up to the Lord we all shall fly
At the great rising day.”
By such a hope as this we may be sustained in the darkest hour. “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”