One Life

For those familiar with our ministry you know that the first Wednesday of each month we fast and bring before the Lord both our urgent prayer requests but much more so our own hearts and lives. Here’s a short post of my email to our teams (FONTS and CBI):

If you ask me the thing that I am most proud of during my time at Harvard I know immediately how I would answer. During those two years I made a promise to God that I would never say no to Pearl. She was always reluctant to ask me to go out for a movie or shopping or even to the grocery store with Hannah (after she was born), but whenever she did I said yes without any reluctance. It was a message that I wanted to communicate to her that she was more important than anything else in my life – that I was never too busy to spend time with her. I thanked God on the day of graduation for helping me to keep that commitment and also for the first time I told Pearl about it.

There are times when I will set aside everything for a day – all my work, hobbies, etc. – to spend the day with my family. Like my time with Pearl at Harvard, it’s not that my studies or ministry or work are bad. It’s simply that there’s something that’s MORE important – my family. And this is exactly what fasting communicates. It’s not that food is NOT important or good or a blessing from God. It just that there’s something, SOMEONE, so much more important – someone WORTH setting aside everything else for – someone to whom we should want to never say no.

Enjoy your fasting… Or much more so enjoy the sweetness of fellowship with the Lord. More of Jesus in our lives….

Michael