What’s the longest you’ve gone without food? Fasting is the practice of voluntarily giving up food for a period of time. Jesus in Matthew 6:17-18 says, “when you fast…” which tells us that Christians are called to fast. Fasting is in many different places in the Bible, but is oddly absent in our culture, which may explain why many of us don’t fast today. What fasting does is allows us to focus and sit in our pain and discomfort WITH God, so that He can give us comfort, direction, and guidance.
Today’s Challenge: journal about how you react to pain and discomfort. What do you do when someone calls you out on your sin? How have you handled loss in your life? Do you run from it, ignore it, or sit in it with God?
[Originally aired on 7/14/2020]
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