Fast like Speedy

Day 2
Sunday is one of my days off. I usually partake in lazing around, watching TV, facebooking and/or pinning on Pinterest (what up?!). I also end up doing errands, dishes and other stuff that my mom requests. Since I have moved from East Lansing, I have not regularly gone to church on Sundays; therefore I have not been fed spiritually as well as I should be.

Today my parents and I tried a new church called New Life Christian Fellowship. I really liked it. The music was good and you could really feel God's presents moving through the community. There was a lady behind us that was speaking in tongues like it was her first language and you could really tell these people were excited and ready for their Lord to speak to them.
Ironically, the message today at church was about fast. In Mark 2, Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees why His disciples were not fasting though it was a day set aside by the teachers to fast. Jesus replied with the metaphor to a wedding where the feasting and partying lasts until the Bridegroom leaves. While the Bridegroom is there, no one fasts. They wait. Therefore in this sense Jesus is telling the Pharisees that He is God. In the original scripture, the word Bridegroom is one of the words used to symbolize God. So, what He was saying was that there will be a time to fast for his disciples but it would not be until he left. This was also the first indication in Mark that Jesus was going to die.
Also in the pastor's message he also talked about fasting as being close to God but also close to the tempter. You are never closer to these two opposites save when fasting. 

Come Lord Jesus Come.


Eating today was fine. I went grocery shopping with my mother and was tempted by a number of foods. Meat cookies, coffee... all of which are forbidden until the end of the fast. However I am confident that I will overcome because I have the Lord on my side.

Love Love Love
Kalio