Verse 6:11 is a simple prayer for provision:
Give us each day that day’s bread—nomore, no less—
This is a simple request for providing for the day. The Voice expands and adds the more or less part, but it is basically asking for provision for life. The problem is how people define “daily bread” and how far they take the idea of needs. Sitting in my place there I look at life in the Hampton’s as excess, at the same time most in this world would look at mine in excess. So where is the line Jesus implied?
A story I heard this morning with Pastor Kevin Queen riding MARTA the other day. He witnessed a man begging for a dollar, the one person on the train that responded gave him $1 of his $3. This was a story of a man living these words, he was not clinging to his $3 knowing it was all he had, but rather gave up 1/3 of his wealth to help another man. That is a person who is not worried and believes God will provide. His response was classic to Kevin questioning him, he said if I died today what good will that $3 do him!!
Not saying we should give it all away to gain God’s approval, but rather give away the hold money has on our lives. This gets into a long study on how we have broken Exodus 20:4 which states:
You are not to make any idol or image of other gods. In fact, you are not to make an image of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Satan has turned from having us worship nature and lesser angels to worshiping wealth. Think about who are worshiped today, the movie stars, the singers, the wealthy or the powerful. We have turned from making Isis, Semiramis or a golden calf an idol to idolizing the talented. Heck we see this in churches often with mega pastors becoming the idols of their congregation. It gets kind of spooky.
So don’t have your faith in money and keep it solid in God!!