The Bread of Life

In episode 11, we discussed Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray. His instruction is traditionally called the Lord's Prayer. He taught his disciples to pray "Give us this day our daily bread." What does that mean? Give us what we need not what we want? Give us just enough to get by? Or does it mean give us everything we need AND You, Oh God, ARE everything we need.
When the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years, they grumbled against God and against his anointed leader, Moses. "Did God bring us out of Egypt to let us die in the wilderness?" God heard their grumbling and answer by sending them manna every day. They could take just what they needed for that day. If they took more and tried to store it, it quickly spoiled. He gave it to them fresh, bread of heaven, every day, their daily bread.
When Jesus spoke about the manna which God had provided to His children, He said, "I am the bread of life.  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.  This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Jesus is the bread of life. He is our creator and sustainer, the One who gives us life.