BLESS GOD
DEUTERONOMY 8:10 (MSG)
After a meal, satisfied, bless GOD, your God...
1 CORINTHIANS 10:31 (MSG)
So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you—you’re eating to God’s glory, after all, not to please them. As a matter of fact, do everything that way, heartily and freely to God’s glory.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Celebrate all the normal ways that God blesses you by blessing him.
PRAYER
God, thank you for all the ways that you are good to us. I confess that I take so much for granted and don't even stop long enough to recognize where it all comes from. So, right now, I bless you for the food I have today, the air I breathe, the water I drink, and all the ways that you take care of me. Blessed are you, O generous God. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
