In expressing gratitude for daily provisions, believers acknowledge God's providence and blessing. The apostle Paul instructs to do everything, including eating, to the glory of God, as seen in 1 Corinthians 10:31. The practice of praying over food is also modeled by Jesus in Matthew 14:19-21 and Matthew 15:11, where He gives thanks before feeding the multitudes. Additionally, the example of Acts 27:35, where Paul gives thanks before eating, and the warnings against condemning others for not doing so in 1 Timothy 4:1-5, demonstrate the importance of this humble act of worship and recognition of God's care.
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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. About five thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children.
When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions. For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”