Title Give me my daily bread
(Give us this day our daily bread) (Matthew 6:11)
What does God mean to me last week when I am in an environment of suffering?
I thought about the problem.
If the problem of most people's suffering these days is an economic problem, today
The Lord taught us how to deal with the problem of eating as Christians.
I will try to think through the prayer you gave me.
The composition of the Lord's Prayer can be divided into two categories.
The first relates to God and his kingdom;
The second can be divided into the relationship between people and the world.
“Pray like this,” and first, “Our Father in heaven! big name
be counted on you, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
May it also be done,' he told them to pray.
And in our relationship with the world and people, 'today give us our daily bread
Lord, forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us
Lord, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
It was.
From this point of view, the problem of living and eating in this world is very important, so
The Lord taught us to pray to ask.
Therefore, today's title is 'Give me our daily bread'.
Among the many human affairs, if there is one thing to seek right first, it is the problem of eating.
1. So, the first thing we taught about humans is our daily bread.
To put it more simply, they told us to pray for food for the day.
Yet this important thing is often the most neglected.
For the most part, make me a lot of money, make my business prosper, keep my factories running
The big problem such as difference is that we pray for God while praying.
Few people are.
Christians today recite the Lord's Prayer like a midday mantra,
I am not looking for it at all according to the meaning.
That's the problem.
God is not only interested in the spiritual life, but also the physical life.
means you have it.
So I asked them to ask for 'Give me today's daily bread'
What this means is that the silver belongs to God.
It means that both spiritual and physical health come from God.
However, people are not the daily bread, but are blinded by covetousness by all means.
It's dark and like a foolish rich man, he only thinks of increasing his warehouse.
That is why those who have will earn more and accumulate more, and those who do not have their daily bread.
You have created a world where you can't even eat properly.
This is the weakness of capitalism apart from God.
Karl Marx said, 'Capitalism is the contradiction of capitalism itself.
will perish'.
It means that there is no end to human greed for water.
However, because such capitalism was combined with Christian faith, the developed countries of today
It was.
That is why all Western capitalist countries are based on the Christian faith.
is proving it.
If the idea of capitalism is not tied to the Christian belief in the daily bread
On the other hand, conflicts with each other due to the endless polarization phenomenon we see in some corners of our society today.
will only create
Because they are blinded by greed and not by their daily bread.
This is the problem.
When your eyes are darkened by covetousness, you cannot see God.
This is because the material without God will eventually be used for its own sake.
Thus, a society of the rich and the poor is created.
2. So, what is the true meaning of the word daily bread?
It means in Greek.
This word is used only here in the Bible.
Therefore, biblical theologians have several views on this meaning.
① First, 'everyday' means 'for today' or 'every day'.
Seen this way, 'Give me bread for today' or 'Give me bread for every day'
will mean
This prayer reminds us that at the time of the Exodus, the Israelites were given only a day's worth of food.
reminds me of
The people told me to gather only one day's worth of food, but maybe tomorrow there will be no manna.
I was worried that it would rot, so I harvested two or three days' worth of food, but it all rotted away.
Instead, they were told to have a double harvest on the eve of the sabbath and to rest on the sabbath.
There were times when people went out without obeying and did not reap any.
All.
In this way, God does not starve His people to death.
You can see that he was trying to believe in it and live every day.
It also means that life depends on God, so don't worry about the future.
② Second, 'daily use' also means 'as much as you need'.
If the above has an enemy meaning, the second has a meaning of .
It means 'Give me as much food as I need for today'.
Then the question arises here.
How much do you need today?
Each country on the planet is different.
The daily necessities of the American people and the poor in Africa and Asia
The daily needs of people in each country are different.
At this point, the question arises as to where the standards should be placed.
Each era has different needs depending on the job and the position of the person.
Indeed, 'how much is our fraction, and how much is greed?'
There is no answer to this problem by comparing people to people.
God knows our needs better than we do.
The point is that we need material things, but don't live coveting them.
Because material is the object of endless human greed.
In other words, you should seek 'as much food as you need' so as not to become a slave to material things.
③ Third, 'daily' can be translated as 'for the day to come'.
It means 'Give us today bread for the day to come'.
This seems to be quite far from the Korean Bible translation, but the entire Lord's Prayer
It makes sense in the context of
In other words, as all of the previous prayers are oriented toward the future, the prayer for food is also reversed.
It can be said to be a forward-looking prayer that looks at the end of the poem.
If we look at this word loosely, it means 'to become a person for God's day.
It means 'Let me eat and live today'.
In other words, 'exalt the name of God and live for the kingdom of God and its significance.
It means 'Give me my daily bread.'
Moreover, when I think in connection with the words 'to us today...', I alone
We are not satisfied with our own rice bowls, but we are filled with empty rice bowls everywhere in the world.
It means woah.
'To live as a person who brings a future where everyone's rice bowl is full of rice
So let me eat today'.
Thus, 'Give us this day our daily bread'... has a very deep meaning.
There is.
I hope we can all live according to this prayer.
But look at the world we live in today.
Yesterday too, I heard a news report of three or four murders in one night.
Not only that, but with red bands around their foreheads, the workers clenched their fists and shouted slogans.
is.
Why is everyone like this?
If you look into it, I think it's because of my rice bowl, and it's for securing fairness for the rice bowl.
is.
I'm just glorifying this and using words like social justice and treatment of people.
A correct understanding of and daily bread are not only for me, but also for us.
If you correctly understand and practice the meaning of prayer for everyone to have daily bread, it will be
It must be living according to the prayer that the Lord has taught you.
Now, just as the Lord taught us, we must pray for our daily bread.
① We need to know that the life of spirit and body belongs to God who is in charge of our daily bread.
is.
② And we must have faith that God raises us every day.
③ And not just our daily bread to eat, but as the will is done in heaven
In order to become a person who lives for the day to come, so that it may be done on this earth.
W We need to find the food we need today.
④ And this is not just me, but everyone's food for all of us.
In order to live for the day when the bowl is evenly filled with rice, save
I'll go.
Dear saints!
If we live according to the Lord's Prayer, our society is political reform and social welfare.
You won't have to say anything.
If we seek our daily bread according to the will of the Lord, we will become a welfare society.
and it will become a just society.
But even today we ask for our daily bread with our lips,
Rather, we are not satisfied with the food of several hundred years and several thousand years,
That is, it is the subject of judgment.
The cause of communism is that Christians did not live according to the Lord's Prayer.
They revolutionized eating bowls with sickles and hammers.
These were the words of the prophets of Israel to the people of their day.
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'Listen, you rich! The cries of your servants are in my ears.”
Another 'Lazy one! Go to the ant and learn wisdom.'
Do you know that I said that because they were all people who did not have a proper understanding of our daily bread?
All.
Now, let us all have a right attitude before God, who will provide us with our daily bread.
Don't be the people who eat only a bowl of crab rice, and for that day,
I sincerely hope that all of God's people who live while seeking food will become.
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