I'm thinking of Jesus as He prayed "Give us each day our daily bread Luke 11:3"... Funny, I am hoping for at least a weeks worth of bread not a days worth. As I age, it feels much more uncomfortable to be living day to day instead of having a nest egg or retirement fund of some kind. We are way better off than most people in the world. We have way more than today's bread in the cupboard. Shoot, we have a cupboard to put food in for heaven's sake!
So what comes first, our provision from the LORD or our trust for that provision? There are lots of passages in scripture where God explains His actions as being motivated by the trust that was put in Him. Like 1 Chronicles 5:20 " He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him." So what can we trust Him to do? I don't believe that God is the candy man...He is not there to feed our selfish ends. I believe there is an intimacy inferred in this passage... I'm thinking the trust these people had was not the kind of trust you give a bridge that you drive over but more the kind a child gives when He reaches his arms out to be carried across the street. One trust is relational and deep, the other is a form of using.
A child's trust in their daily bread has nothing to do with the next day. They only receive what is on the table today. I've never heard my children ask me what tomorrow's dinner will be. They only ask, "what's for dinner?" They fully trust dinner will be there when it's dinner time.
God, Help me find that kind of trust today.
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