On Fasting

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Fasting. In Christian circles the term is very known. Most think of it as a day of not eating, if you can manage not to eat for that long. Most consider it a daunting task to not eat for an entire day but endeavor to do so to draw closer to God. It's often easy to forget the reason behind fasting. As Christians, we are commanded to fast in the Bible so it can often feel like another thing that should be done. Some Christians never fast.

But I believe that fasting can be done with not just food. I think that you can fast from anything that comes between you and God. Sometimes it's hard to judge what is most important to you. But I challenge you to figure out what you spend your most time doing. Ok I know some of you are in school right now and I don't think anyone would consider school as something they want to come between themselves and God. But school can be detrimental to your spiritual life. It can come from our ungodly obsession with being busy. Have you ever considered that God commands us to "be still and know that I Am God." That requires us to...Be still! Not moving, not busy, not interrupted by anything. I think we can over overvalue busyness and think people are not living up to their full potential when they are not running around constantly.

So, perhaps this is a call for you to put down what has been getting in the way of living your life completely sold out for Christ. I'm not saying that it will be easy but dying on a cross so that we could be forgiven wasn't easy either. And that is just one of the many things that God has done for us, how can we withhold anything that we are capable of giving to Him?

~Jess Gray 
 

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