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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: which most of all God preserves to us our daily bread and all the
comforts of this life. For though we have received of God all good
things in abundance we are not able to retain any of them or use them
in security and happiness, if He did not give us a permanent and
peaceful government. For where there are dissension, strife, and war,
there the daily bread is already taken away, or at least checked.
Therefore it would be very proper to place in the coat-of-arms of
every pious prince a loaf of bread instead of a lion, or a wreath of
rue, or to stamp it upon the coin, to remind both them and their
subjects that by their office we have protection and peace, and that
without them we could not eat and retain our daily bread. Therefore
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