How do you start your meal?

My fellow sippers,

It has truly been a while since I last posted. I must say that I am definitely in a transitioning season that has me. feeling like I am wacky and all over the place. However, my trust is in God and I will wait patiently for Him to get me through this transition.

I wanted to share some enlightenment today, because I started a new devotional on my Bible app called Prayers of Jesus. I am thoroughly enjoying the close reading of Jesus' prayers. One of the things that I noticed is that anytime Jesus had dealings with food, He blessed it. I was raised with the practice of blessing my food as well. As a young child I was taught the traditional:

God is great.

God is good.

Lord we thank You for our food.

In Jesus' Name,

Amen. 

However, as I grew up I began to actually pray a prayer of thanksgiving and of blessing, but it was still very traditional. Now, I am one of those people at the family dinner who gets easily annoyed with the person who wants to pray for what seems like 15 minutes over the food. But as I read the prayers of Jesus, I am beginning to see my thankfulness differently. I think that our "grace" or "food blessing" is not suppose to necessarily be about us begging God to rid the food of germs and that the food would be nourishing to our bodies, because the simple fact that He has provided the food is already a given that it will be nourishing. Instead, and this is solely my opinion, I think that we should spend more time thanking Him for the provision of the food. Think about how many individuals that we don't see who aren't able to access food as easily? We should be thanking Him for our jobs, our tables, our fellowship and gathering. I hear my food blessings be about releasing germs and the things that may be harmful to our bodies, instead of them being about thanking God for the availability of and access to food.

So here's my challenge to you my fellow sippers, before you begin "blessing" your food, consider the many things about your food that you can be thankful for. Are you thankful for the food being blessed in advanced? Are you thankful for the food being germ free in advanced? It's not necessarily about God needing to rid the food of what may be harmful, but we should be thanking Him for ridding the food of the harm. IT IS DONE! In Jesus' name!

Signed,

The King's Daughter