Our Daily Bread | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 16.

Our Daily Bread.

"GIVE us this day our daily bread." That is, Give us to-day the bread sufficient for to-day. Nothing less than divine wisdom could have framed so simple and so reasonable a petition. Human greed would ask for enough for all future time; but if that were granted, the person could use no more of it to-day than he could if he had just enough for his needs. Besides, suppose a man were to-day given as much as he could use in a life-time, what assurance would he have that it would not be gone to-morrow, and he be left destitute? Indeed, this would most probably be the case; for, having enough for all time, the man would have no need for further asking; and by thus neglecting the source of supply, he would also shut himself off from the only power that could preserve. But the promise is, "Ask, and ye shall receive;" and the man who asks every day with the assurance that every day he will receive sufficient for that day is better off than the man who is given at once enough for all time, because he has not the worry of trying to take care of it. In one case the man is his own banker and watchman; in the other case God is the custodian of the treasure.