Jesus taught us to ask for daily bread, not to hoard yesterday's blessings. When the Israelites tried to keep manna from the day before, it rotted and became inedible. Each day brings new needs, and God wants you to rely on him fresh each morning.
When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, why did he tell them to pray for his daily bread? Watch this.
When Jesus talks about how to pray, one of the fundamental things is to give us this day our daily bread. And that tells me that there is a need to go to God every day. But sometimes we can get complacent. And I think back to the story in Exodus with the Israelites in the wilderness, how God gives them food for the day and he gives them this thing called manna, which is basically what they eat. But some of them try to hold on to the manna because they're worried that they won't be able to eat tomorrow. And so when tomorrow rolls over, it gets stale and ultimately they can't eat it. And for me, that shows that we cannot Hold on to the bread from yesterday for today. Like, there is a daily bread for a reason, and we need to go to God every day to be sustained by him, because every day has its own challenges, every day has its own worries, but God gives us what we need for each day.
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