Those who are called to follow Jesus cannot think first of bread and home and pleasant meadows and all the familiar and comforting things. In a reversal of all human hopes and expectations, they are to think first of righteousness, of God's purposes and not their own. And in return they are promised happiness. In the Lord's Prayer, do we not first pray for the coming of God's righteous rule and only then ask for bread? If we put God's cause ahead of our own, we may expect God to take care of all our needs.
 
 

                  From  Blessed Are You by John C. Purdy