Sunday, June 11, 2023

True fasting

Isaiah 58:1-14

Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workersYour fasting ends in quarreling and strifeand in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 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 them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I

If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressedthen your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Why?
Most Christians are attending church activities, which seem very busy and focus on the Lord, but their lifestyle is the same as others, without love to their neighbors, even oppressing the workers. quarreling and strife every day.

Pray to the Lord and have mercy from the Lord have to humble before the Lord, and love others around us. Do the righteous work and walk in the right way. Fasting and worship is a ceremonies but the Lord like us has love behavior in our daily life.

How?

After being busy working one six days, do I calm down before the Lord and humble, restore my spirit from the Lord?



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