Acts 27:33-39,44
³³Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.
³⁴Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”
³⁵Having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.
³⁶All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.
³⁷All of us in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six persons.
³⁸When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.
³⁹When day came, they could not recognize the land; but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could.
⁴⁴and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.
Devotional
Old bread
Experiment: let a sandwich in a paper bag in the cupboard for 14 days
Do you think it will taste nice afterwards?
If you also don’t eat any food in those 14 days, you will feel just like Paul and the others on the ship. Hungry, down, tossed to and fro on the waves, bad weather all around you.
In the midst of those 276 Gentiles, Paul sat down and prayed before he would eat. He wasn’t embarrassed, didn’t make a quick prayer as we often do when we have a meal in a public place.
No, he thanked God. What an impression that must have made on all those men. The same day everyone came ashore safely. With their stomachs full of old bread.
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