[Songs in the Night - February 24]
Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:11
TO SUPPOSE that the Lord here is merely referring
to the natural food would imply that the petitioners
were merely natural men, whereas we know
that the prayer was taught only to those who were
reckonedly new creatures in Christ by a covenant to
walk in his steps in the narrow way.
It must be understood,
therefore, that it is the new creature that is
offering the petition, and this will imply that it is the
nourishment of the new creature that is chiefly under
consideration—with whatever provision for temporal
necessities the Heavenly Father may see best. Z'06-205 R3806:5 (Hymn 286)