Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
Thomas Boston, The Whole Works of Thomas Boston, Vol. 2:610-12
"What is the import of praying, Give us this day our daily bread ? It is not, Give us to-morrow our daily bread. It teaches us,
1. That we are not to be anxious about to-morrow's provision, Matth. vi. 34.
2. That God will have us every day coming to him for the supply of our needs. He likes to have his people about his hand ; and therefore never furnishes them so one day, but they need to come again another day.
3. That we are not sure of to-morrow. Every day may be our last. ' For what is our life ? It is even a vapour that appearcth for a little time, and then vanisheth away,' Jam. iv. 14. We may die this day, and need no more. So that there is no occasion for praying for any more than provision suitable to the day when it comes."
"Let us not be anxious about provision for this life, nor go outof the road of duty or righteousness to get it. For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; and they that keep his way, he willsee to their provision. Let us be diligent in our several callings to maintain ourselves in an honest way, without anxious solicitude and carking cares about the event ; but leave the success to God, takingthankfully whatever he sends, and craving his blessing upon it"
"What is the import of praying, Give us this day our daily bread ? It is not, Give us to-morrow our daily bread. It teaches us,
1. That we are not to be anxious about to-morrow's provision, Matth. vi. 34.
2. That God will have us every day coming to him for the supply of our needs. He likes to have his people about his hand ; and therefore never furnishes them so one day, but they need to come again another day.
3. That we are not sure of to-morrow. Every day may be our last. ' For what is our life ? It is even a vapour that appearcth for a little time, and then vanisheth away,' Jam. iv. 14. We may die this day, and need no more. So that there is no occasion for praying for any more than provision suitable to the day when it comes."
"Let us not be anxious about provision for this life, nor go outof the road of duty or righteousness to get it. For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; and they that keep his way, he willsee to their provision. Let us be diligent in our several callings to maintain ourselves in an honest way, without anxious solicitude and carking cares about the event ; but leave the success to God, takingthankfully whatever he sends, and craving his blessing upon it"
