125. What is the fourth petition?
“Give us this day our daily bread” that is, be pleased to provide for all our bodily need,[1] so that we may thereby acknowledge that Thou art the only fountain of all good,>[2] and that without Thy blessing neither our care and labor, nor Thy gifts, can profit us;[3] that we may therefore withdraw our trust from all creatures and place it alone in Thee.[4]
[1]Ps. 104:27-28; 145:15-16; Mt. 6:25-26. [2]Acts 14:17; 17:27-28. [3]I Cor. 15:58; Deut. 8:3; Ps. 37:3-7, 16-17. [4]Ps. 55:22; 62:10; *Ps. 127:1-2; *Jer. 17:5, 7; *Ps. 146:2-3.
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