Q & A 125
Q. What does the fourth petition mean?
A. “Give us this day our daily bread” means:
Do take care of all our physical needs (1)
so that we come to know
that you are the only source of everything good, (2)
and that neither our work and worry
nor your gifts
can do us any good without your blessing. (3)
And so help us to give up our trust in creatures
and trust in you alone. (4)
1 Ps. 104:27-30; 145:15-16; Matt. 6:25-34
2 Acts 14:17; 17:25; James 1:17
3 Deut. 8:3; Ps. 37:16; 127:1-2; 1 Cor. 15:58
4 Ps. 55:22; 62; 146; Jer. 17:5-8; Heb. 13:5-6