What does our Lord Christ teach us with the words “this day” and “daily”?

With the words “this day” and “daily” our Lord Christ teaches us that we need these gifts just one day at a time. Therefore we are not to worry about our future livelihood as the pagans do.

Matt. 6:34: Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Assignment: Read Matt. 6:25-34: Jesus urges us to consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.

What does our Lord Jesus Christ teach us with the words “our bread”?

By using the words “our bread” our Lord Christ teaches us to ask for bread that comes to us in a manner that is in accord with His will. At the same time He teaches us that we are not to desire bread, which does not belong to us. He also teaches us to remember those neighbors of our who are in need.

2 Thess. 3:10-12: If any would not work, neither should he eat... Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Eph. 4:28: Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

What is meant by daily bread?

Give us this day our daily bread. What does this mean? God gives daily bread indeed without our prayer, also to all the wicked; but we pray in this petition that He would lead us to know it, and to receive our daily bread with thanksgiving. What is meant by daily bread? (Daily bread is) Everything that belongs to the support and wants of the body, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, home, field, cattle, money, goods, a pious spouse, pious children, pious servants, pious and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, discipline, honor, good friends, faithful neighbors, and the like.

Daily bread is everything we need for our temporal life. God is ready to provide it, and does provide it, to everyone every day. But He wants us to ask Him for it in our prayers and thankfully to confess that we receive it as a free gift out His great goodness.

Matt. 5:45: He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

1 Tim. 4:4-5: For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.

Assignment: Discuss: How are we to understand famines, wars, and disasters, through which human lives are lost. Read Ps. 139:16 and Luke 13:1-5.