This four-week series, Family Dinner, examines meal and food-related passages in Scripture and culminates in a deeper understanding of Jesus’s invitation to “take and eat” the bread and wine as part of our communion practices.
Using the metaphor of daily food and nourishment, Jesus modeled prayer for the disciples and included a statement of thanksgiving for daily bread. Not only was Jesus thankful for the food sitting before Him, but He also thanked God for sustaining Him in every way. We pray that God would give us this day; which teaches us to renew the desire of our souls toward God,
as the wants of our bodies are renewed;