Luther taught us that "daily bread" is not just food, but it's everything we need "to support this body and live." In this petition we recognize that it is God who gives it to us, just because He is the kind of Father who loves us and wants to bless His children with all these gifts.
Luther taught us that "daily bread" is not just food, but it's everything we need "to support this body and live." In this petition we recognize that it is God who gives it to us, just because He is the kind of Father who loves us and wants to bless His children with all these gifts.
By the way, these guys are gifts from God, too, as they work to keep law and order in our societies so that we can be free to do our own work, to be safe, and to speak the Gospel freely to one another in our homes and in our churches.
And this is why - not so that we can just sit and soak them all up and act like "oh, of course God should give these things to us!" but more like "Thank You, Father, for loving us so much that You have given these things to us - way more than we would have ever expected!"