He Knows

"After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry." ~ Matthew 4:2

 Jesus knows.  He has been there.

When the gnawing feeling of hunger eats at the inside of your belly, or makes your soul ache and you want to give up because fasting is just "too hard".  

 Jesus knows. 

"He was hungry."

40 days and 40 nights of fasting.  In the desert. Yeh, He knows. He KNOWS.

The same thing that sustained our Savior through temptation after 40 days and nights of fasting can get you through also - the Word of God.  (Matthew 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3)

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Empty

It was Ash Wednesday.  The beginning of the Lenten season.

And so I fast for the day. 

Not so I can consider myself righteous.  Or appear pious.  Or to be deserving.

It's not about me at all.

It's a denying of self.  An emptying of self.

To make room for Him and His holy Spirit to come in.  To fill every part of me.  

My body, heart, and mind.  My life.

Letting go of fear.  Trusting God to sustain me and provide for me.

And always faithful - He shows up and makes His presence known.

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