Jul 19, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
Have you ever rushed through a meal without giving it a second thought? What if something as ordinary as eating could become one of the most meaningful ways to experience God's presence? In Week 5 of…
Lucas PradoHostHow do we experience the presence of the Almighty, not just in the mountaintop moments of life, not just when the music is swelling on a Sunday morning, but in the mundane, the repetitive cycles of everyday existence.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
What makes this verse so powerful to me is that Paul isn't saying when you pray or when you preach a sermon or when you do some massive act of service, do it for the glory of God.
But instead he pairs the cosmic glory of the creator with the absolute most mundane, repetitive, biological functions of human existence, eating and drinking.
And by picking, eating, and drinking things that we do mindlessly several times a day, Paul is saying there's no such thing as a secular moment for a follower of Jesus.
So if a box of scalloped potatoes or a quick sandwich can be done for the glory of God, then everything in our ordinary lives is holy ground.
You know, over the years as a pastor, I have observed many tend to divide their lives into two distinct categories, the sacred and the secular.
And we assume that God's glory only inhabits the sacred stuff like church and personal prayer and reading scripture.
And then we look at things like eating or doing dishes, driving to work, going to school.
And the reality is that for most of us, our days are totally overloaded with too many things to do and just not enough time to do them.
And because we're running so fast, we lack the energy to be intentional about including God in what we're doing.
And our bodies, they simply can't keep this pace that we're forcing on them and they malfunction more often.
Well, why is that? In his book, Redeeming the Routines, author Robert Banks, he points out a theology only has real power if it actually shapes our daily lifestyle.
So if our faith doesn't change the way that we sit at the kitchen table, then it isn't transforming our lives.
How do we actually do something as ordinary as eating for the glory of God? Now when we hear the word glory, we think of splendor, beauty, brightness, majesty.
How do we experience the presence of the Almighty, not just in the mountaintop moments of life, not just when the music is swelling on a Sunday morning, but in the mundane, the repetitive cycles of everyday existence.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
What makes this verse so powerful to me is that Paul isn't saying when you pray or when you preach a sermon or when you do some massive act of service, do it for the glory of God.
But instead he pairs the cosmic glory of the creator with the absolute most mundane, repetitive, biological functions of human existence, eating and drinking.
And by picking, eating, and drinking things that we do mindlessly several times a day, Paul is saying there's no such thing as a secular moment for a follower of Jesus.
So if a box of scalloped potatoes or a quick sandwich can be done for the glory of God, then everything in our ordinary lives is holy ground.
You know, over the years as a pastor, I have observed many tend to divide their lives into two distinct categories, the sacred and the secular.
And we assume that God's glory only inhabits the sacred stuff like church and personal prayer and reading scripture.
And then we look at things like eating or doing dishes, driving to work, going to school.
And the reality is that for most of us, our days are totally overloaded with too many things to do and just not enough time to do them.
And because we're running so fast, we lack the energy to be intentional about including God in what we're doing.
And our bodies, they simply can't keep this pace that we're forcing on them and they malfunction more often.
Well, why is that? In his book, Redeeming the Routines, author Robert Banks, he points out a theology only has real power if it actually shapes our daily lifestyle.
So if our faith doesn't change the way that we sit at the kitchen table, then it isn't transforming our lives.
How do we actually do something as ordinary as eating for the glory of God? Now when we hear the word glory, we think of splendor, beauty, brightness, majesty.
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