The Lord’s Prayer is something I often gloss over. An entire chunk often swallowed as a capsule, without ever permitting myself the luxury of savoring every grain of truth.
But God opened my eyes, once again just now.
And it is that single, one-liner verse 3, sandwiched right in the heart of this eleven-line prayer. And it is:
“Give us
DAY by DAY
our DAILY BREAD”
Wow. Day by day. And as if that is not enough to underscore His point, He says “day by day our daily bread”. He could have just said “bread” and it would not have changed the meaning.
And look at it. The Prayer begins at verse 2 with “When you pray, say:”, goes on for 5 lines, ending at ” On earth as it is in heaven”.
That’s just verse 2 taking up a total of 6 lines!
Then verse 4 continues the other half of the Prayer with “And forgive our sins” and ends it at “But deliver us from the evil one”. That’s 5 lines for one verse.
So right there in the middle, you have verse 3, with five lines above and five lines below.
A single line speaking volumes
“Give us day by day our daily bread”
Like a heavenly highlighter highlighting every word with BRIGHT ORANGE (FONT 40!!)
It’s like an intentional “half-time”
A breather.
A reminder to pause regularly … even as we conquer new grounds or face new challenges or meet new people or take up new jobs or marry our loved ones or set new goals or handle new projects or write new blogs or lead more care groups or handle some more new projects and ….
Selah.
Day by Day, He tell me to Be Still.
To walk every moment
One day at a time.
To enjoy the Bread, to enjoy Him
every day.
*And the things of this earth will grow strangely dim. In the light of his glory and grace*
