Food for Thought?

Matthew 6:9-13

Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.

What really struck me in this passage ("The Lord's Prayer", Jesus' example of how we should pray) was the part about food (yes, I am a huge fan of both Jesus and food so I was pretty excited to find them both in Matthew 6).

If you re-read the passage, paying extra attention to food part, you see that when Jesus teaches us to pray, he does so in the future tense. So often, for many of us, the only consistent time we pray is when there is food in front of us or even after we've already eaten, but Jesus example was about, before anything happened and before we even thought about where our next meal was coming from, recognizing that it is God who sustains us and provides for us. I think for many of us we ignore God all day long, sit down to dinner and, in our hearts, pray "God, this food looks great and I worked my butt off earning the money to buy it and/or cook it. Oh, PS, thanks for anything you might have had to do with it. Amen."

Maybe it's time for a change.