Is there actually a difference?
2007-07-03 13:50:26 · 8 answers · asked by Wellll... hello then! 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not much besides the statement itself. Not much of a difference. it's your heart that matters. ;)
2007-07-03 13:53:24 · answer #1 · answered by K in Him 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanking God for what He provided is important. Asking for His blessing is asking for that food to be beneficial to you.
Both are worth doing because there is a difference.
2007-07-03 20:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Bob T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know but I agree with the person that said God knows your heart.
I know someone who insisted that you had to pray, "bless this food to the nourishment of our bodies" or we would get fat. I'm serious!! As if God holds us to the exact wording of what we exactly say.
Thanking Him for it I think is necessary- "in all things give thanks" but I don't really see the purpose in Him blessing the food. Maybe I just don't understand how exactly what that would mean.
2007-07-05 09:52:58 · answer #3 · answered by Lizzi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thankfulness is an outward expression of the gratitude we have for God's providing for us. It looks to the past. A request for blessing it looks to the future use of it as it enters our bodies and works with other phenomena to further God's work on the earth.
2007-07-03 20:56:47 · answer #4 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me blessing it means asking God to bless it or to make it bring nourishment to my body. Thanking God is saying thanks for providing the food and the money to buy the food.
2007-07-05 11:13:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes; one makes sure it's good to eat and the other one thanks Him for providing it.
There is a story about "death in the pot" in the Bible that is a great story on this subject. It's in 2 Kings 4:38-44. That "Thus saith the Lord " is so great.
2007-07-03 20:57:48 · answer #6 · answered by garykofoid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have thought it depends on the cook.
For what we are about to recieve
May the Lord give us strength to eat it.
2007-07-03 20:58:20 · answer #7 · answered by philip_jones2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the whole fact that asking and thanking are two different things.
2007-07-03 20:55:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋