* Luis Alberto Alves
The fasting subject is long, it would take several pages of this blog to talk about something so ignored by many Christians, today concerned only with material achievements, leaving the spiritual in the background, when the right was to continue privileging what comes from Heaven, because it is for There one day we will return if we have a clean heart and hands.
A controversial theme among Christians is sin. Few people fast asking for forgiveness from the Lord for their sins. They seek to push under the rug the mistakes made, especially what they did away from the eyes of their family members. They imagine that God did not visualize the transgression performed.
Nehemiah, much used by God, was warned by the Lord that after the reconstruction of the walls of Jerusalem, the people needed to confess all the mistakes they made against the Lord. In Nehemiah chapter 9, verses 1/4, it is described that the people fasted, clothed in sackcloth, and threw dirt upon their heads in a clear sign of humiliation before God.
But before fasting they read the Word of the Lord for three hours and another three hours confessing their sins and then worshiping God. That is, when fasting is necessary to study the Word of Jesus Christ, to meditate on what is being done. It is not simply not eating and drinking anything. This is a fool's fast, and God will not receive.
* Luis Alberto Alves is a pastor
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