The spiritual blessings you received yesterday are wonderful; but you need a fresh infilling today.

The spiritual blessings you received yesterday are wonderful; but you need a fresh infilling today. We're not a bus running on a tank of fuel; we're the old-fashioned streetcar that ran by a constant touch with the "third rail."

Jesus taught us to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. 6:11). But that's what we forget so easily to make sure we have.

It's not merely human forgetfulness: there is sin in this forgetting. It's a lack of appetite for heavenly bread. And that means we yearn for what this world provides; we're in serious malnourishment. Skin and bones ends in death. Jesus said, "You must work, not for this perishable food, but for the food that lasts, the food of eternal life" (John 6:27, NEB).

Think of the Lord as our Chef (He is!). When someone cooks up something nice for the family, he/she is pleased when they express appreciation. Oh, that rare appetite for heavenly food! The problem is that "the carnal mind is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7), and that means a distaste for heavenly bread.

But "blessed [happy] are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness" (Matt. 5:6). The glory comes next: "They shall be filled." Oh, the joy of having a square meal of righteousness. Make sure that you have it.