Give us this day our daily bread. MAT 6:11

The first principle taught us our need for humility, "Give us," is beggar's language. "Give us this day our daily bread" is a confession of unworthiness. We have forfeited all of His blessings; it is a plea for mercy and undeserved favor.

The second principle our text teaches is God's condescension in looking unto such trifling needs as the daily bread of His created creatures, but He sustains and looks after the creatures which He has created.

Take notice of PSA 103:13-14, "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him." God condescends so low that He looks upon us as little children, even as our earthly father looked upon his little children. He looks upon us with that same tender, fatherly love, looking after our every need in the same, intimate relationship as a loving natural father does for his children.

Verse 14 says, "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust." God remembers that He created us of the dust of the earth; He didn't create us from the dirt or from sand, but from the dust. Think of this; the Scripture speaks of the nations "...as the small dust of the balance..." in ISA 40:15.

Think of how insignificant the dust is. God used the dust to make man. He used the lowest and the highest substance; He used the dust of the earth and the breath of God. "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul," GEN 2:7.