Now, thinking about Christmas Day, did you get what you wanted? Did you want what you got?
That key word, “want,” a noun and a verb, originates from Old English.
Merriam-Webster.com defines the noun form as “deficiency, lack;” “grave and extreme poverty” that deprives one of life’s necessities. The verb form means “to be needy or destitute; to have or feel need; or, “to fail to possess, especially in customary or required amount; lack.”
In the Christian context of life’s necessities, Martin Luther described them as ‘daily bread.’ We pray per Matthew 6:11, the Lord’s Prayer, i.e.:
“Give us this day our daily bread.” 
Luther then defined it, as found in Luther’s Small Catechism, pg. 189: “Daily bread includes everything that has to do with the support and needs of the body…
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Believers recognize and acknowledge with gratitude that it is God who provides, thus the prayer for daily bread is made in expectation, not in begging for what has already been promised.
Psalm 23 begins with the affirmation:
“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”
Psalm 34:9-10:
“There is no want to them that fear him. …they that fear the Lord shall want no good thing.”
If we perceive a lack of any of the good things listed above, does it render God’s word untrue? 
Psalm 37:4 distinguishes between wants-lacks, and our desires – the “strong intentions or aim” of our heart. Spending time in worship and the Word, listening to the Holy Spirit as we delight in growing closer to the Lord, will not only give us our desires, but give us the right desires.
Let us examine our “good things inventory;” indeed, if anything is wanting, lacking, let us turn to the Lord who knows what we need (lack) even before we do, and repeat that grateful, expectant and trusting prayer:
“Give us this day, our daily bread.”
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