You,
“Day by Day”
When
we were taught how to pray, one of the things we are told to ask for is Daily
Bread. Food, yes. But also daily sustenance of a spiritual nature. It isn’t
however an invitation to complacency, laziness, or mindless followership of
ritual. You must know by now that the heart matters more to who we serve than a
well-kept routine.
So
don’t worry about whether you are doing things ‘right’ and don’t bother about
what anyone might have to say about your acts of worship. It isn’t meant for
them and they have no way of knowing the intentions of your heart. Not even
your prophets, priests, and pastors have that power. So they cannot tell you
that your relationship with God is insubstantial because it does not meet their
human measurements. Our faith is made possible by the sun setting on their
supposedly infallible authority, and the Holy-of-Holies being made open to us
all. They are not God.

Even
as God seeks no routine or ritual, He seeks a relationship. Daily Bread gives
us the opportunity for that. It sustains us, renews and revitalises us. It heals
us of the inevitable wounds of simply being human, being far away from our true
home, where our hearts reside with God.