Daily bread (Martin Luther and Annie Knott)

"Give us this day our daily bread"

From the February 7, 1914 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel

by Martin Luther

"Give us this day our daily bread." Why do we use the words "our bread"? 

Because we do not pray for the common bread that even heathen partake, and which God gives to all men, but for "our" bread, the bread of those who are the "children" of the heavenly Father. And what then is this bread of God? It is Jesus Christ our Lord. "For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." Therefore let no one be deluded. Whatever sermons and instructions do not exhibit and make known Jesus Christ cannot be the daily bread and nourishment of souls.—Martin Luther.

Ed. Readers may enjoy reading what an an early Christian Science worker has to say on the topic of daily bread. https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/1915/9/18-3/daily-bread

Here is a short excerpt (emphasis added by me):

Daily Bread

By Annie M. Knott

From the September 18, 1915 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel

In that wonderful eighth chapter of Romans Paul says, "We know not what we should pray for as we aught;" then he tells of the searching of the heart, and of the spiritual intercession which is "according to the will of God." No one can deny that prayer and desire need to be spiritualized because our real needs are spiritual, and we cannot too often remind ourselves of this. Even the deep spiritual significance of the Lord's Prayer may be obscured and the blessing missed by a material sense of need, but to one who is only beginning to understand the teachings of Christian Science the spiritual sense of daily bread as given on page 17 of Science and Health is almost startling. It reads: "Give us grace for today; feed the famished affections." ...

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