Tuesday 15Feb2022
This afternoon in my New Testament reading, I came across a passage in Acts chapter 27 telling us that the Apostle Paul, in his voyage to Rome, just before his ship was wrecked at Malta, took bread, gave thanks to God in front of everyone in the ship. and broke it before eating.
Acts 27:33 - 35 RV Revised Version
33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. 34 Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you. 35 And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all: and he brake it, and began to eat.
This reminds us of the way our Lord Iesus the Anointed One broke bread with his disciples at his Last Supper:
Luke 22:19 RV Revised Version
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Later, in 1 Corinthians chapter 23, the Apostle Paul recounted what the Lord did on the night of the Last Supper:
1 Corinthians 11:23 - 24 RV Revised Version
For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; 24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Brothers and Sisters in the Anointed One, let us remember the way our Lord broke bread with his disciples. Let us recall that the apostle also broke bread in a similar manner in front of the people on board the ill-fated ship. Let us also do likewise with food that the LORD gives us at each meal, to take hold of it in our hands, to give thanks to God for it, and to apportion it before having it for our meal.
