Our Daily Bread...

Reflecting this Sabbath on the word of the Lord as meditated on by our pastor Bob Flayhart today, a new concept was presented to me that has plagued me most of the day. As Jesus instructed his disciples in Matthew 6 on "how to pray" (i.e. The Lord's Prayer) we are to corporately pray for our "daily bread." Not bread for next week, next year, the bread of retirement, or the bread that will get our children through college but what we need this day--today's bread. How much of my time is spent worrying whether we have adequately prepared for the future, whether we can "afford" to do X, Y, or Z in the future? Am I not much more valuable to the Father than the birds of the sky? Matt. 6: 25-27. Why then do I engage so often in such disobedient behavior by not trusting that manna will continue to flow each and EVERY day to fulfill my necessities. Further, will He not have the same favor on my children? Why do I feel as I am the ultimate authority for my child? In a few rare and silent moments of solitude, His grace directs me that the buck stops not with me but with HIM. Lastly, as I continue in my quest to yearn for "daily bread," I am awe struck by the question (posited by Bob) "what if all of our excess--i.e. everything we do not need for today--grew worms and stank" as did the manna from Heaven (Exodus 16:20)? I fear if such a scenario rang true, when I awoke tomorrow morning, the worms would take over and revolt against me.