“Give us day by day our daily bread” (Luke xi. 3).
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 thy days so shall
thy 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 unto the end of the age.”
Like the little water spider that goes down beneath the waters of the pool
enclosed in a bubble of air, and there builds its nest and rears its
young, and lives its little life in that bright sphere down beneath the
slimy pool, so let us in this dark world shut ourselves in with Christ in
the little circle of each returning day, and so abide in Him, breathing
the air of heaven and living in His love.