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| REST STOP #3: Definitions, Details and Actually Doing It By Janene Goertzen Dependent – unable to exist, sustain oneself, or act appropriately or normally without the assistance or direction of another. Based on this definition and your understanding of what it means to rely on someone/something, begin by making a list of everything that you depend on. It may be helpful to go through your daily schedule and write down any activity, habit, or person that helps you make it through the day. Don’t forget the little things like the cup of coffee in the morning or the 30-minute sitcom on TV or the chat on MSN. Now look at your list and prayerfully consider if any of these habits are taking away from your relationship with God. Are you relying on things other than God himself to make it through every day? If you took away your morning cup of coffee or your evening dessert or that 30- minute sitcom, would you feel like you were missing something? Spend a few moments thinking about what it’d be like to give those things to God. Fast – to abstain from food; to eat very little or abstain from certain food, especially as a religious discipline Now, based on this definition, look through your list of dependencies. What would it take for you to “fast” from one of these things? How would you fill that time, craving, or void? Spend a few moments in prayer to seek what God may be asking you to give up. Pray for Him to guide you and fill those voids. Read Hebrews 12:1-2 – We are instructed to throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that entangles us. We are to look to Jesus. Write down a few ways that you can do that through fasting – whether it be from food or an activity. Continued... |
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