Fasting. Almost every time someone says that word our first thoughts are somebody giving up food. Which, most of the time, is what that means. Fasting is hard but great. It’s one of the tiny ways where we can show God how much He means to us. We get to sacrifice something for 24 hours or more to show God that we want to hear from Him and we want Him to answer.
Fasting is not just limited to food. Recently I did a 24 hour phone fast and I would be lying if I said it wasn’t hard. I know it sounds kinda ridiculous that I struggled giving up my phone for only 24 hours, but yep I did. I had been relying on my phone. It bought me comfort. It was easy to use my phone as an escape from everything and everyone around me. It was good because every time I went to pick up my phone, I would pray instead. So I prayed a decent amount throughout that day haha.
The thing is I didn’t even want to do a fast. I was perfectly fine with using my phone everyday, but you know some people thought it would be good for me. One of my friends said it casually like, “Oh, I think it would be good for you to do a phone fast. I think God wants you to.” I ignored her lol. Until my other friend said, “Hey I’m doing a phone fast you should try it too. Mine’s a week, but you should try it for a day.” At that point I was feeling like I was maybe supposed to do a phone fast.
So I may be a tiny bit dramatic when I say “it was hard.” It was weird not to have it and yeah I did miss it sometimes, but it really did give me a lot more time to spend with Jesus. I’ve been struggling lately and just having time to talk to God about it was really great. Usually whenever I would start thinking about the struggles I would just pick my phone up and try to forget it, BUT when you don’t have a phone it’s a little difficult to do that lol. I know that God is all knowing and already knew I was struggling, but to actually tell Him and get it off my chest was exactly what I needed.
My fast didn’t fix everything for me, but it did make some things clearer. The fact that I have a Savior who wants me to talk to Him all the time blows my mind. The thing is, I can talk to Him all the time. I just choose not to because of the all the distractions. That’s something I realized during my fast. I also realized that talking to God makes you feel a lot better! Who knew right? I still have tings to figure out and my struggles are still here, but it’s nice to know that He knows that and He’s got it.
Peace out till next time 
