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| I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I need to worry too much about showing off. Maybe that is an issue for some Christians, but I have the opposite problem. I don’t want to do this. It hurts. It breaks my routine. It’s inconvenient. I’ll get hungry. But you know what? These things that I love so dearly, things that I depend on and cherish and rely upon, these good things—-might actually be barriers to the really good thing—God. Remember how an apple tastes when you haven’t had an apple for so long? Maybe that how God tastes when it’s been awhile. And maybe that how an apple will taste to me after this fast. Everything will taste better. That’s a good thing. REST STOP #2: At the River Ahava By Megan Yoder “Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might deny ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves and our children, and all our possessions. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and cavalry to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king that the hand of our God is gracious to all who seek him, but his power and his wrath are against all who forsake him. So we fasted and petitioned our God for this, and he listened to out entreaty.” Ezra 8:21-23 NRSV Continued... |
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