Give us this day our daily bread... That a part of a prayer most Christians would recognize. In the Our Father prayer, we are asking God for our daily dose of grace. Just as he supplied the Israelites with a daily dose of manna in Exodus. They were not allowed to store it to and use it tomorrow. In the same way, we should not try to store the grace given to us today and use it tomorrow. We need to use it today! Otherwise, God's grace has been given to us in vain. Meaning, it was given to us without effect, it has no real value.
Each and every day, we are called to work for God. Each and every day we are blessed by his grace. His grace is freely given, not because of something we did to earn it, but because of something Jesus did for us. God doesn't have to give us grace. He chooses to. Would the almighty and powerful God choose to give us grace just to watch us become "couch potato" Christians with it? NOPE! I have heard many people say, "I am putting ____ in God's hands. If it is meant to be, God will take care of it." That is absolutely right, however, God wants us to work at our requests also. You can't win the lottery without buying a ticket. Same thing here. You can't go through life just assuming everything will be handed to you, and you can just lounge around waiting. We must trust in God, then get to work! God is the king, not us. We should be serving him in honor of the graces we are given.
Let us serve God with open hearts daily. Let us get up daily, thanking him for the grace of the day, and put it to good use, so that it may not become stale and withered, like yesterday's manna.
2 Corinthians 6:1 Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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