Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
"Give us this day our daily bread." (Matthew 6:11)
When we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” we are, in a sense, shutting tomorrow out of our prayer. We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek tomorrow’s grace or tomorrow’s bread, but today. Those who thrive best, and get most out of life, are those who live in the present.
They pray best who pray for today’s needs, not for tomorrow’s, which may render our prayers unnecessary!
True prayers are born of present trials and present needs. Bread, for today, is bread enough. Bread given for today is the strongest sort of pledge that there will be bread tomorrow. Victory today, is the assurance of victory tomorrow.
Our prayers need to be focused upon the present, We must trust God today, and leave the morrow entirely with Him. The present is ours; the future belongs to God.
Prayer is the task and duty of each day—morning devotion prayer for daily needs. Evening prayer for thanks giving and protection.
As every day demands its bread (spiritual food), so every day demands its prayer. No amount of praying, done today, will suffice for tomorrow’s praying.
On the other hand, no praying for tomorrow is of any value to us today. To-day’s manna is what we need; tomorrow God will see that our needs are supplied.
This is the faith which God seeks to inspire. So leave tomorrow, with its cares, its needs, its troubles, in God’s hands. There is no storing tomorrow’s grace or tomorrow’s praying; neither is there any laying-up of today’s grace, to meet tomorrow’s needs.
If we live in faith day by day, it will dispel all fears for the morrow. Faith brings ease of mind and perfect peace of heart.
We cannot have tomorrow’s grace, we cannot eat tomorrow’s bread, we cannot do tomorrow’s praying. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof;”
(Matthew 6:34) and, most assuredly, if we possess faith, sufficient also unto the day, will be the good thereof.
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
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