Give thanks

Combining Acts Commentary and Thanksgiving.

Acts 27:33-36 thankfulness, sustenance, and good cheer.

Acts 27:33-36 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat. Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

To the church in Thessalonica, Paul wrote, “In every thing give thanks…” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). Acts 27 records one case of Paul’s thankfulness “in every thing,” a time of great danger in a storm at sea. In this case, the thankfulness was based in God’s future promise over their present circumstances. In every thing giving thanks can include looking backward in the past, looking around in the present, and looking forward to the future.