Thanks Be to God (part 5)

Here's a scary thought. How often in the simplest things do I forget Him (God)? Joshua 9:14, for instance, describes the desire of the LORD to remember Him in the eating of a meal and the consequences of forgetting Him in that. If I need further example, what of Jesus giving thanks before feeding the multitude with the loaves and fishes. (Matthew 14:19, Matthew 15:36, Mark 6:41, Luke 9:16) and the Last Supper He had with His apostles. (Matthew 26:26,27; Mark 8:6,7; Luke 22:29; John 6:11,27; I Corinthians 11:24). Paul in Acts 27:35 gave thanks for the meal. Paul in Romans 14:6 likened praying and thanking God for a meal to thanking God for all things. While Romans 14 is specifically about that fact that not all people are spiritually equal, even though God looks at us that way, whether I am fasting or eating or whether I think of one day as more important than another or not, if in my heart I am thanking God for many blessings He grants me and not lording it over people (I Timothy 4:3-5), putting restrictions on them that don't exist according to God, then God will bless me in all things. Christ prayed. Why should I not pray the same prayer of thanksgiving for what God blesses me with? Why should I not take to heart that He give me these things not because I deserve them, but because He love me? It really makes the blessing more special. Then I am not just living on bread of this earth. And every meal is like the Lord's Supper, for it is sanctified in Him.