Anger management specialist Leonard Ingram says that: Anger is a natural human emotion…the problem is not anger, the problem is the mismanagement of anger. In these verses Jesus says there’s a secret place in the human heart where even our angry thoughts can lead us to murder.
How to Live Under God’s Blessing Matthew 5:1-6
Jesus encourages us firstly to ask for our daily bread and in the very next line our daily forgiveness. When we confess our selfishness to Jesus and ask Him to rule our lives, we are forgiven!
The literal translation of today’s text is give us enough to survive this day. The prayers had to believe that God could do it, if he didn’t they would literally starve.