Let’s Get This Bread
If you’re anything like me then you probably don’t know a ton of the slang that kids are using nowadays. Things like: VSCO girl, E boy, Lit, I’m weak, Fam, and of course YEET! There’s a pretty common slang that I’ve heard the cool kids use that I’m particularly fond of: Let’s get this bread!
Let’s get this bread is essentially a battlecry to get stuff done! It is a motivator. It is what my summer staff members would yell after breakfast. They would yell it out whilst on adventures in the Keweenaw with their groups. They would yell it in my face right before we did our daily push-ups as a staff (that’s another story)! They would scream it prior to devotions to hype up the youth. Pretty much any chance they had they were yelling, “Let’s get this bread!”.
Sidenote: There are also some really fun variations: Let’s : obtain this grain, take this cake, yeet this wheat, wrestle this pretzel, solicit this biscuit, and my personal favorite: finagle this bagel!
Let’s get this bread is also a reminder: It reminds me of the Lord’s Prayer.
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those
who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom
and the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen.
Jesus taught his disciples the Lord’s prayer knowing that they would say it for years to come. He knew that they would teach it to the church and the church would continue to recite it. The words become second nature to many Christians. Oddly enough, the more we repeat something the more likely we are to forget what the words really mean. We repeat them for the sake of repeating, not because we mean them.
“Give us today our daily bread” is not a demand to God, but a line of thanks for God giving us not the luxuries we demand, but the necessities which He readily supplies. We have food, fellowship, a place to live, and faith in our Savior, Jesus. There is much we may want, but we have all the “bread” we need.
I encourage you to remember that God has given us our daily bread. He’s given us the ability to serve Him today and always. When you find yourself or those around you in need of a little motivation I want you to give them the encouragement that they need: tell them, “Let’s get this bread!”
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Shared by Psych, our Keweenaw Base Camp Director, at the 2019 Fall Workbee.