Father God,

Today, I pray for Your children to be able to rest in Your providence so that we may respond in fruitfulness to Your blessings that You rain down upon us. As we read in Isaiah 45:8, let us respond like the earth receiving rain and producing abounding fruit from the Lord’s rain. Let us not respond like Israel in the following verses, quibbling against their coming deliverance at the hand of a Gentile conqueror (Cyrus).

Let us receive from You, both in the ordinary and the extraordinary of our days, knowing that all rests in the hands of the one who created us, who forms us day by day, making us into the likeness of Christ as You provide our daily bread in sufficiency.

Show us where we are quibbling like Israel, speaking back to our Potter as an ungrateful and foolish potsherd.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.