Today marks the first day of my 12 day fast. It's already hard. EEVERYTHING looks delicious. Incase you don't know I am a waitress. Therefore, I work with food all day…and I LOVE food. It's true, I might be small but I eat alot! Things that I don't normally like even sound good and this is only day one : / On the plus side I spent more time reading my bible, thinking and praying today.
Today I read Genisis 23 & 24 and Luke 9. Both are well know stories from the biblebut the messages in both are just so rich I have to go back to them. It just amazes me the authority and faith that the servant and the family have in Genisis. For him, a stranger, to be welcomed into a family's home where he planned on asking to take their daughter far from them is unimaginable. But, because the servant and family both have such a great faith they send there daugher away with a complete stranger. All because it was God's will!!! Wow, I wish I could hear God that clearly and beable to take leaps that big on a daily bases but in my sin and the muttle of my daily life I often don't talk to God enough or dig into my faith enough to hear him and I most certainly don't think I could have the faith to let something that precious to me go that easily. I think giving things up for God is one of the hardest struggles for me. I only hope someday I can make it look as easy as some other people do.
