Wednesday, June 8, 2016
10:59 PM

They fasted their own way. They fasted for their own reasons and purposes and motives. They fasted for God to answer them and do what they wanted. They fasted so that their effort and affliction could entitled them to get from God what they wanted. When God did not answer, they became angry and confronted Him because they just want to see the result and expected God to give them their desired result.

The fast that God has chosen for us is for us to humble ourselves. To search our own hearts and let the Spirit of God burn away all of our fifthiness and wickedness and our evil thoughts words and deeds. Sins caused us to be burdened , in bond and carried heavy yoke. We cannot carry the yoke and burden of our sins. We have to give all to Jesus and carry His yoke. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. We carry the burden of God, not the burden of this world. What God commissioned us to do is to be our burden but it is not burdensome at all because He has given us His Spirit. We have the mind of Christ help us and enable us to carry His burden, not our burden. But His burden. He is the One who make His light shine in us and through us. Because He is light and darkness cannot overcome light. When we walk with Him, His light shine through us!