1 Cor 10:31
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
Initial response: What? How do I eat in a way that glorifies God? Am I going to have to sacrifice all my bad eating habits, or what? Like actually, how do I do that?
1 Timothy 4:3-5
3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
1. Received with thanksgiving
If every good thing comes from God, then we should be thankful every time we eat! I totally don't. At dinner we pray before we eat and thank God for the food He's given us, but at school and throughout my day and stuff, I never do.
2. Consecrated by the word of God and prayer
I think this part, being consecrated by the word of God, is what has happened in the 1 Tim verse. God said all food is edible as long as we thank Him in prayer for it, then it is "consecrated." I don't really get that part..
BUT
Back to that first verse. If this is how we eat and drink in a way that glorifies God, then not doing this does not bring Him glory, which means it's sin I think. So you have to thank God for the food you eat every time in order to glorify Him in this simple, everyday action.
Interesting.
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