Our Daily Bread

Mat 6:9-11 HNV
(9) Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
(10) Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
(11) Give us today our daily bread.

When Jesus told His disciples how to pray, He gave them this example. Typically, if we have grown up in Sunday School, we were taught this prayer at a young age. But how many of us pray this as adults?

To ask for today's bread means we do not want tomorrow's bread yet. When we pray this prayer and mean it, we are asking for no more than what we need today. We forfeit the security of tomorrow's provision: our savings account, our college fund, our pantry, our job security, our health report... Do we really want to pray this prayer?

If we wake up some day in a situation not unlike many Haitians today, how do we react? Do we totally go to pieces and change the prayer to "Today and tomorrow, God!"?

It's not that God doesn't want us to have security - but He wants our security to rest in Him. If our security is not in the Lord today, where is it?