Welcome to the first of our Advent ‘Hope for today’ devotions, a collaboration between Rev Irene Bom and Rev Graham Austin, with visuals by Irma Gevers.
Matthew 6:11
‘Give us today our daily bread.’
‘Give us today our daily bread.’
These familiar words from the Lord’s Prayer remind us that we need to turn to God to sustain our lives. Regardless of whether this bread is to be taken literally or spiritually, in either case it is an on-the-day-every-day need that we are to pray for. Note these two things, this bread is a gift of God but also it is given for the community, ‘our’ bread.
Reflection
What ‘bread’ do you require today?
QUOTE FOR TODAY
In the future, it is the presence of God that will renew all things.
(Glenn Packiam, Worship and the World to Come, p. 181)