Your generous father

“Give us today our daily bread.” Matthew 6.11

Behind this verse is the recognition that ultimately everything we have comes from the hand of the Father who provides for us. Asking God for the things we need, even when we have the resources to buy without his divine intervention, underlines this truth for us.

We need to learn to ask with the expectation that God will give. He has just invited us to pray for the coming of his kingdom, so it is unlikely he will want to give us one thing and yet be unwilling to give us others. In Luke’s account of the parable of the talents (Luke 19.11–27), the biggest judgment was reserved for the man who felt God was mean. When we are told to ask for our daily bread, this encouragement comes from the one who gave us the most valuable thing he could, Jesus. Indeed, Paul writes in Romans 8.32, ‘He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?’

This is the God who invites us to bring our requests to him, who has given us Jesus out of his love for us, and who longs for us to trust in our Father God.

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