provide me only with the food I need
The LORD gives us daily bread. He gives us enough. He is not interested in filling our silos to overflowing. We should turn to him to receive what he does give and learn to be content with what he offers. In this we are safe from the temptations the result from absence. In this we learn to rely on the LORD.
Add nothing to his words,
lest he reprove you, and you will be exposed as a deceiver.
It's hard to accept, but more than material things what he gives us as bread as himself, including his words. This is hard to accept because it doesn't seem like enough. We are tempted to add to it. We need to be like Paul who learns to be both be abased and abound (see Philippians 4:12). If we do, we can avoid the temptation to make backup plans when he calls us to go out and proclaim the Kingdom of God.
He said to them, "Take nothing for the journey,
neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money,
and let no one take a second tunic.
The LORD's word is in fact enough. If we rely on it we are sustained by it. If we try to add or subtract from it we falter.
Your word, O Lord, is a lamp for my feet.
A lamp shines only on the path before us. But we don't need to go out searching for floodlights. We just need to keep walking.
From every evil way I withhold my feet,
that I may keep your words.
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