I have never been successful at fasting. I think it’s because in the past, for me, it’s been all about giving up food, not about seeking God. This time I think it will be different. I want to be continually drawing closer to God and understanding His will for me.
In Jeremiah 29:13, God says, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." What an encouraging promise this is. If we truly seek Him he will hear us and reveal Himself to us. God is incomprehensible, that is we have nothing on earth to compare Him to.A.W. Tozser writes, in The Knowledge of the Holy, "The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the Incomprehensible, to touch and taste the Unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its Source. How can this be realized? The answer of the Bible is simply “through Jesus Christ our Lord”. In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure, although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him."
Praise God that He sent Jesus Christ to redeem us and help us understand more about Him. I hope that we will all individually and corporately grow in our understanding of God and His will for our lives through this week of fasting and prayer.
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