Ethan Compton (guest Daily Bread baker)
Two Sundays ago, while doing my homework, a random thought occurred to me. Why not fast? I did some thinking and decided I wasn’t going to eat anything for 24 hours, starting that Sunday afternoon.
During my fast, my thoughts toward foods changed. Any food I saw looked delicious. Even a little cracker or tiny pieces of candy looked amazing and I just wanted to eat it! And, obviously, when someone doesn’t eat anything for 24 hours, they get hungry. Throughout my time fasting, I could constantly feel the hunger.
One of the reasons I decided to fast was to make 1 Peter 2:11 come alive and make more sense. 1 Peter 2:11 says, “Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.” Most people eat every day. No one can deny that the human body has to eat. But, people of the world sin every day, with no sign of guilt or repentance. But as Christians, we should be fasting from all sin.
When I was staying away from food, simple foods offered to me, like candy, looked great! Let’s be real here. It’s candy. Candy is full of sugar and other things that don’t help our bodies. Sin looks good and it looks like you’re going to be having a great time doing it, but we’re only lowering our chances of getting to heaven. The constant reminder of hunger was also a great reminder of how we should always be fighting and trying to stay away from sin.
We should be doing as Peter says and abstain from all fleshly lusts. Each one of us has to eat food, but we don’t have to partake in sin. Realize that every extra step we take to get sin out of our lives is more than worth the effort.
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Thank you for that lesson! It was a good illustration of what is going on when we resist food when we’re fasting and when we resist sin in the world! I never thought about it like this before.