Why fast? Why in the world would not eating food, be something that we need to do to seek God?
I do not understand fasting, never have and maybe never will but I do know that Jesus said we would need to fast... He said in Mathew 6:16, "WHEN" you fast, not IF you fast...let your fasting be in secret and God the Father would reward you openly.
He Himself set the example by fasting forty days, at the begining of His ministry... At the beginning, He fasted, which is when we need to fast as well... At the beginning, before we embark on a new journey in to the unknown wilderness of life...
We must prepare ourselves through a process called "fasting", not because we understand it, but because that is what God has called us to do... We don't have to understand something, to know that it works... I don't understand how a TV station can project a LiVE image through a cable in the wall to a box in my livingroom, but I sure am not going to wait until I figure it out to watch the news. Fasting works, whether or not I understand it...
There is something about denying ourselves what we need or take pleasure in, in order to seek the ONE Who gives us what we need and is the author of pleasure... I remember how Jesus denied Himself to take up His cross and then denied Himself and His rights and His innocence to die for our sins, an unspeakably horrible death...
Maybe in the denial of our fleshly need for food, we experience a small taste of giving something up, in order to attain something greater...
