March 5- Isaiah 58

What an interesting way to title this chapter "True Fasting"
We can easily call it "True Lent" or even "True Worship"

Verse 5 explains this problem clearly -- Is fasting just going through the motions, starving yourself, bowing your head, saying some prayers, giving up texting, doing that one thing you promised to give up for lent?
It is not fasting when you're just sacrificing things yet you still scream at people in anger or are mean to the people that are weaker or less popular than you. When you see someone in need - of clothes, of a friend, of a hug, of a word of encouragement - respond to it.

This is what I call Lent.. True Fasting.. True Worship...

Are we just struggling to give up that one thing just for the sake of giving up something for Lent out of tradition? Or, is this a true act of worship that is changing us - the way we live, the way we serve those around us, the way we act?

Has Lent been just a struggle to get something done just because you said it? Have you lost the focus on what this time of renewing our vows to God? Maybe it's time to readjust the way we approach this time of fasting... It's not so much just a giving up but a giving up so that we can gain so much more!