December 21

Give us each day our daily bread. — Luke 11:3 BSB

It is very hard to live a lifetime at once, or even a year, but it is delightfully easy to live a day at a time. Day by day the manna fell, so day by day we may live upon the heavenly bread, and live out our life for Him. Let us, breath by breath, moment by moment, step by step, abide in Him, and just as we take care of the days, He will take care of the years.

God has given two precious promises for the days. “As your days, so shall your strength be,” is His ancient covenant, and the literal translation of our Master's parting words to His disciples is, "Lo, I am with you all the days, even to the end of the age."

Like the little water spider that goes beneath the waters of the pool enclosed in a bubble of air, and there builds its nest and rears its young, living its little life in that bright sphere beneath the murky pool, so let us in this dark world shut ourselves in with Christ in the little circle of each returning day, and abide in Him, breathing the air of heaven and living in His love.