Listening
It is the second day of fasting. Often it is said that fasting increases spiritual awareness and focus. I can find no biblical support for this notion and I find that distractions nag at my willing mind as strong and as frequently as ever. Perhaps, however, I am simply more aware of the ways in which the various scintillations that I subject myself to are a siren song making shipwreck of my faith.
Whichever it is, the clear call from God is that I must devote all my attention to him. Only when I am “all ears” will I have the ears to hear.
someGuyOnTheStreet wrote:
/in illo tempore …/ Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him …
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On the other hand…
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… And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked him: Why could not we cast him out? And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Posted on 06-Feb-10 at 11:52 pm | Permalink