Daily Bread

The last few weeks, well really, the last few years have been very busy. Exhausting most of the time. I’ve been up early and to bed late with a packed day in between. Some nights have been spent sitting in the rocking chair gazing at the stars wishing the baby would find sleep, so I could. Many days I’ve gone without my studying my bible or even listening to music in the past year. I’ve enjoyed the peace and quiet in the car with the radio off. Some days that’s okay. And then there are times when it’s been too many days.

Earlier in the week I decided it was time to study tired or not. As I read a couple passages in the chapter I have been working through I realized I was missing something. I wasn’t sure what I was missing at first but then I kept reverting back to a validation of the feeling. It’s true. Something is missing. So, I asked God what it was. Novel idea…I’ll leave that right there.

My answer came. It was true. I was missing something. My morning routine. The hour I spent listening to gospel music and reading the word that gives me life. That’s what has been missing. My spirit has been missing it’s daily portion of bread. The fill up I desperately need before I face the day ahead.

Isn’t it awesome that God craves that time with us too? He longs for that time with us enough to nudge our hearts and call us deeper to him. Right in the middle of us being too busy for him. It’s about a relationship with him. It’s not about a rule. A rule that says you must spend one hour every day dedicated to me and me alone. No. He doesn’t give that rule. He simply seeks to spend quality time in a relationship where we get to know him more and he gets to show his love to us more.

It isn’t complicated. It doesn’t have to be. If we spend time with him, rejoice in him, encounter our hearts with him, and seek after him all the rest will fall into place. Life won’t be perfect or problem free. But, he will be our ever present help in trouble. If we go to him on the good days, bad days, hard days, and really awful days. He will be there ready to provide exactly what we need to face the day ahead.

Give us this day our daily bread.

I had a pastor once that reminded us if we only partake of his word on Sunday we are malnourished. We are missing out on 6 days of daily bread. I can’t imagine many of us go 6 days without our “food” but for some reason we will go 6 days without our spiritual “food” and not expect to be weak, malnourished, and in starvation.

His word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Don’t walk in darkness. Illuminate your path with the holy word of your Abba father waiting for you.

Bobbie