Assessing Your Daily Bread

Proverbs 16:3 says “Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans”. From this we learn that man’s role is to plan while God’s promise is to bless what His children plan. The devil wants Christians to believe in the easy but fallacious theory that God will do it for us. Nowhere in The Bible does it say so. Psalm 1:3 says a person who trusts in God is “like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper”. From this Psalm we see that God’s children need to “do” to “prosper”.  In Matthew 6:11 Jesus taught us to pray “Give us this day our daily bread”. The thing about bread is that you have to prepare the dough before you put it in the oven. If you don’t put dough in the oven, bread will not come out of the oven. If you don’t plan and put your plans in God’s oven, there will be no bread coming out for you. Which is why Proverbs 16:1 says “The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD”.