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A Fasting Acknowledged by God - Today's Verse


Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter, when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Isaiah 58:7

One tries to stay away from food and water in order to have a prayerful connection with the Lord. It is a way to please the Lord and to direct our thoughts to prayer. By fasting demons are cast out from our life and it is also a symbol of seeking God diligently.

But here in this passage of Isaiah 58:7 God says that he is not pleased with this kind of fasting. God says that you have your money in your pocket and the strength in your body kept safe and you fast. After the fasting period you again return to your good old ways. Also, the prayer points for which we fast are also for our own selfish desire, which brings injustice and ties cords of yoke to our fellow being and depresses them.

Instead of you practicing a false stay away from food, God wants you to share the money which you have with your fellow ones who are needy and oppressed. God wants you to open your house for all those who are chained in slavery and give them freedom and deliverance. All pain and loss which is incurred from this sharing of food & shelter is the real fasting, says the Lord. God is well pleased with this pattern of Fasting.

Now the pain which is come to your body is by sharing your own food with the needy ones and your living place with the houseless ones. Even here you become hungry, but God recognizes this Fasting greater when compared to one refraining from food and water in his abundance, without any thought for his own flesh and blood.

With an unwilling heart to share food and shelter for your brothers and sisters, if you try to fast in the presence of God, then He is not interested in this fasting. How can you put a deaf ear to your brethren and fast with a holy heart in the presence of the Lord? He wants you to be given like Him on the cross for everyone. 

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