Beloved children receive food and discipline!

Isaiah 33:16 reads in part, “Bread will be given him, his water will be sure.” This reminds me of how Jesus taught His people to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.”[1] It was His people to whom Jesus taught this prayer, and it was they whom He authorized to address God the Father in this manner; God is not the father of all.[2] Isaiah’s passage also limits the “him” of “Bread will be given him…” for the preceding sentences read, “The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil: he will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; bread will be given him, his water will be sure.”[3]

To whom will bread be given? “He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly…!” Yet this righteousness and uprightness is not infallible in God’s people, for Jesus, immediately after teaching to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread,” said, also pray, “Forgive us our trespasses!”

God is Father to all who love the Lord Jesus Christ with a love incorruptible.[4] A father cares for his children even when they err and continues to give them food to eat. A father also disciplines his children when they err. “If you are without discipline…you are illegitimate children and not sons.”[5] Beloved children receive food and discipline!

Therefore, child of God, take courage! Your Heavenly Father cares for you.

Isaiah 30:20-23 (NKJV)
And though the Lord gives you
The bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
“This is the way, walk in it,”
Whenever you turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.
You will also defile the covering of your graven images of silver,
And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing;
You will say to them, “Get away!”

Then He will give the rain for your seed
With which you sow the ground,
And bread of the increase of the earth;
It will be fat and plentiful.
In that day your cattle will feed
In large pastures.

by Eugene Clingman

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[1] Matthew 6:11
[2] John 8:41-44
[3] Isaiah 33:14-16
[4] Ephesians 6:24
[5] Hebrews 12:8