Day 8
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Joel 2:12
I know someone who’s hard to talk to. I get the feeling I rarely have their full attention. When I’m talking they’ve got their eyes scanning the room looking to see who else they can talk with—at least that’s what it seems like. They may ask, “How’s it going?” I give the highlights, the Cliff Notes version and several sentences in I know I’ve lost them. I get the occasional, “Oh yeah? That’s interesting,” but I know they’re gone. Mid-sentence they move on to talk to someone else—awkward!
Years ago I heard a quote that’s stayed with me:
Today’s verse is a call back to God with all our hearts, a full attention, full focus, return to our Source of life, hope and joy. As Jesus said: I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5
Fasting is all about drawing back to God. Return to Him with “all your heart.”
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Joel 2:12
I know someone who’s hard to talk to. I get the feeling I rarely have their full attention. When I’m talking they’ve got their eyes scanning the room looking to see who else they can talk with—at least that’s what it seems like. They may ask, “How’s it going?” I give the highlights, the Cliff Notes version and several sentences in I know I’ve lost them. I get the occasional, “Oh yeah? That’s interesting,” but I know they’re gone. Mid-sentence they move on to talk to someone else—awkward!
Years ago I heard a quote that’s stayed with me:
“Does God have my attention and the world’s a distraction? Or does the world have my attention and God’s the distraction?”
Today’s verse is a call back to God with all our hearts, a full attention, full focus, return to our Source of life, hope and joy. As Jesus said: I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5
Fasting is all about drawing back to God. Return to Him with “all your heart.”
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