We've been thinking this week about the Lord's Prayer on Things Unseen.

And I sympathize with you if perhaps you've groaned a little inwardly and thought, not again.

If you hear your minister or pastor say,

we're starting a new series today on the Lord's Prayer, you may think, is there anything

about this prayer? I don't know. But sometimes knowing is not really our problem. Our problem

is applying what we know. The Kellogg Company once ran

what I thought was a great TV advert for their corn flakes. In it, a young man sits down for

breakfast and has a bowl of corn flakes and then he looks up and says to the camera, I'd forgotten how good they tasted.

Now, things unseen doesn't do product placement, but I remember having breakfast once in a hotel

and thinking, I think I'm going to try the corn flakes, not having had them for years. And the words of the TV advert came

back to me. I suppose I'd had hundreds and hundreds of bowls of cornflakes growing up in days

when there were only maybe half a dozen different breakfast cereals. And yes, actually, I had forgotten

how good they tasted. Well, maybe these apparently disconnected

comments are more to the point than you might think because maybe you've forgotten how good

the Lord's prayer tastes. And perhaps too you've forgotten to pray, speaking of taste. Give us

this day our daily bread.

There's been a lot of discussion over the years about this phrase, daily bread.

Sometimes it's been applied to the Eucharist, and then scholars discuss the various possible

meanings of the word daily. Does that mean today's bread or does it mean

bread for tomorrow? To be honest, I don't think all that need bother us very much. What we're asking for

here is for the provision we need for each day so that we can have the daily strength to honor God's name,

to serve His kingdom, and to do His will.

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