Number Two is “Praying before meals”
Before I begin, I will be using the word “Jewish”. I have read that there are negative connotations to the word “Jew” and so to try to be as respectful as I can, I will use the term “Jewish”.
I’ll be showing these videos in the way that they match my topics and not necessarily the way they were filmed.
This is the same video as the first one, but I want to expand on another concept, which is praying before meals.
In the video they visit a kosher pizza place.
I had a general idea of kosher food, but didn’t know that each prayer would be different depending on what you were eating.
As a Christian, what can we learn?
We can learn to be grateful for any meal that we have and use it to have a discussion with God. Thank him for the farmers that grew the food, the people that packaged it, the truck drivers that got it to the store, the workers that stocked the shelves, and the people that checked us out. We can be grateful for giving us the ability to earn a wage to pay for the food and the ability to carry our groceries and put them up.
“Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water.”
Exodus 23:25 (NIV)
“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 Timothy 4:4 (NIV)
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 (NIV)
We can remember to do everything with thanksgiving, as we are called to do.
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Philippians 4:6 (NIV)
